South Korean designer Donghoon Sohn has pressed plastic slabs together like slices of bread for his latest furniture series, allowing primary coloured, recycled binder to bleed from the cracks as if it was melted cheese.
The collection's name, BSP, pays homage to the classic BLT sandwich and stands for byproduct, solvent and plastic.
Although its Cubist chair, bench and side table consist largely of pure white, virgin plastic blocks, these are held together by acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS plastic) offcuts, which are recycled into a technicolour glue that spills out from the seams.
The BSP collection is held together by a multicoloured binder made from recycled ABS
"ABS is a popular material for 3D printing and CNC milling because it is easy to dye and process," Sohn told Dezeen. "Inevitably, a lot of plastic waste is created in the process, which is hard to recycle because it is too tiny, like dust. But these flakes or small parts from failed prints are easy to dissolve in a little amount of solvent due to how large their surface area is relative to their volume."
The chair is formed from slabs of white, virgin plastic
According to Sohn, the pieces only take about five minutes to dissolve in ethanol, before they can be mixed with different coloured powders.
From here, the ethanol can easily be evaporated in order to once again solidify the material while pressing it between the slabs.

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