Swedish industrial designer Gustaf Westman has collaborated with hosiery brand Swedish Stockings to create a limited-edition collection of tables made from recycled tights.
Named Tights to Tables, each item in the collection was created using between 80 to 350 pairs of recycled nylon tights per table.
"The size of the piece determines how many pairs we use ? for the smaller tables, the number is around 80, and for the larger dining tables we need more tights because the size of the table is much bigger", Swedish Stockings CEO Linn Frisinger told Dezeen.
Gustaf Westman collaborated with Swedish Stockings to design the Tights to Table collection
The tights are ground down and mixed with recycled glass fibre to form a durable material for table construction. "We grind down the tights and mix them with recycled glass fibre that is then pressed in cylinder moulds and then polished and sanded by hand," Frisinger explained.
"The terrazzo-like pattern created on each table is unique due to the pieces of tights showing up within the glass fibre."
The tables are made up of nylon and recycled fibreglass
The collection, which is made up of five tables, was created by hand at the Swedish Stockings warehouse in Köping, Sweden.
Swedish Stockings likened the design process to that of creating fibreglass tanks, except the sanding and finishing of the tables was done entirely by hand.
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