Designers Romain Coppin and Alexis Bondoux, who collaborate as Messgewand, have created a collection of surreal furniture made from collages of found objects.
Messgewand's collection of 10 pieces of furniture offers an alternative to highly polished products most designers develop for mass production.

Coppin and Bondoux, who met nine years ago while studying in France, favour an experimental creative approach.
Their latest collection of works was created during a month-long residency at ALFA ? an atelier in the Belgian municipality of Zaventem that supports young artists and designers experimenting with new approaches to craft.

For the residency at ALFA, the designers created ten pieces of furniture using materials including wood, metal, foam and plastic gathered from the atelier's workshop. They also sourced discarded furniture and objects from a flea market and secondhand store in nearby Brussels, which they used to produce pieces described as "a new step in the exploration of our process of collage."

"It took us almost two weeks to collect stuff and sort them out properly in the workshop," Bondoux and Coppin told Dezeen.
"After that, we started to compose things from this stock by testing combinations and contrasts, then we added ornamentation, paint, surface work and decoration details."

The designers explained that their creative process is informed by the physical and aesthetic properties of the materials they use in their collages.
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