London Design Festival 2016: designers raided the SCP warehouse for discarded furniture to make the pieces in the The Thing With MaltaSingh exhibition, set to be auctioned next week.
Alex Hellum, Clark Clerkin, Max Frommeld, Jochem Faudet are among the designers involved in constructing the Frankenstein-esque works, recycled from the furniture manufacturer and retailer's cache of damaged or otherwise unusable pieces.
"Wheely good for last orders," says Hans Stofer of his design, made from a golf cart, laminated plywood and builders oak
A Kriptonite shelf, Marcel Breuer Cesca chair backrest, Robin Day chair base and steam-bent beech component combined to make Chair 02, designed by Joe Buttigieg. He described them as "the most unlikely components to ever be compatible with each other". Hellum rescued one of his own works, the Tool Stool, and evolved it into the Ulric Chair, with a backrest made of steam-bent beech and ash woods.
"Everything where it aught to be," says Sam Johnson of his SJ7 Chair.
Meanwhile, Fiona Davidson named her creation ? wrought from a plastic shell, bungee cord, gaffer tape and tubular steel frame ? the Musical Chair, because she says it reverberates.

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The pieces were displayed during the London Design Festival at an exhibition titled The Thing With MaltaSingh, held at Gallery SO on Brick Lane.
"The most unlikel...