At this year's Salone del Mobile at Milan design week, fashion brand Yves Salomon showcased a furniture collection with Chapo Creation, inspired by Pierre Chapo's designs and incorporating shearling offcuts.

The collection consists of a day seat, a sculptural chair, a lampshade, an ottoman, and an armchair. Each item was upholstered with upcycled shearling scraps, which were held together using cord, removing the need for nails, glue, or screws.
All the items in the collection are adorned with upcycled shearling scraps
"The project set out to challenge our artisans at Yves Salomon's ateliers to repurpose and upcycle materials from our fashion collections," the fashion brand's founder Yves Salomon told Dezeen.
"This approach led to the choice of a diverse range of furniture, enabling our craftsmen to showcase their skills through a variety of innovative techniques," he continued. Salomon used intarsia, a technique normally most associated with wood, to fit the shearling pieces together to make a pattern or picture.
"Shearling serves as the material, while intarsia ? similar to marquetry ? is the technique used," said Salomon.
The Lo1 bed can also be used as a seat
The collection, created for furniture brand Chapo Creation, includes the Lo1Bed day bed. The day bed, originally created by furniture designer Chapo for Irish writer Samuel Beckett in 1959, features clean, modern lines and can also be used as a seat.
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