Danish designer Kasper Kyster has showcased the Crafting Plastic collection of furniture, which was constructed through bending plastic sheets by hand, at 3 Days of Design.
Kyster made the pieces from two-millimetre thick PETG plastic sheets, which he heats up in order to shape them into furniture.
The collection includes plastic stools
"I buy these sheets that are then cut up into certain sizes," he told Dezeen.
"And then I have a heat gun and a couple of cloths and I just heat it up, fold it, heat it up and fold it until I get these slats that I can work with."
Kasper Kyster wanted the Crafting Plastics pieces to have an organic feel
The shape of the furniture was also determined by the material.
"I try to make it as round as possible so it gets stronger, and the joints are also very strong ? I heat up the plastic even more where it connects, so that the surface kind of melts and is welded together," Kyster explained. The lamps have a slightly different shape to the other pieces
Among the 10 pieces that Kyster designed are stools and chairs, but also a large shelf, a coat rack and two lamps.
"I was focusing on trying to make the furniture pieces as archetypal as possible, so that you are more focused on the materiality and the process of it than the shape ? you're not in doubt that this is a chair and this is a stool, and so on," he explained.
The furniture is made out of PETG sheets
The lighting designs are more sculptural, as they...