Jill sez, "Here's a chair made from 297 recycled tennis balls. Fun, bouncy and surprisingly comfortable! I just discovered it at the BKLYN Design show in NYC, and thought you might like it."
Hugh Hayden's FUNature Tennis Ball Chair (Thanks, Jill!)
Tennis-ball chair
Jill sez, "Here's a chair made from 297 recycled tennis balls. Fun, bouncy and surprisingly comfortable! I just discovered it at the BKLYN Design show in NYC, and thought you might like it."
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hmm... recycled? Recycling seems to be a tab slapped on all kinds of wacky designer furniture these days just to give it that extra bit of cred. What are the chances that the designer had access to hundreds of squeaky clean yet somehow unwanted tennisballs vs the chance that the designer just went ahead and bought them so that the idea could be realised?
I can't prove any of this, but still.
#1 That's exactly what I was thinking...Looks awful clean for used tennis balls. Can one wash a tennis ball? That sounds like a good musique concrete idea.
Wanna come over and sit on my balls?
Tennis balls are great to wash pillows in automatic laundries. I do hope they get out clean !
I'd like to watch it tossed down a long flight of stairs.
Also, third the skepticism on the veteran status of those balls.
Reminds me of corn, actually....
I believe those are reused and not recycled tennis balls.
Every tennis player should have one. I think I may do the same thing with the wine corks I have been saving up.
REDSHIRT has it correct. these balls are simply repurposed, not recycled.
The original piece uses the word repurposed - simple misread that's all.
How do you keep the family dog from dragging it all over the place? A dog slobber soaked tennis ball chair! Eew...
I live across the street from an urban tennis club. My view is of a big green fence, but about three or four times a week a tennis ball comes flying over and into my back porch area. They all look like the ones in the photo. They're not dirty or tore up. I don't know about the balls in the chair, but just because they aren't dirty doesn't meant they aren't used.
Is it just me, or does that photo look like it's a dolls house and those tennis balls are teeny tiny model tennis balls?
I have no idea why I think it looks like a model, but it does.
The tennis balls come from an indoor court at a college in NYC so they don't get very dirty. Apparently, once tennis balls wear out and are no longer up to standard, they just throw them in a shed. This designers hires a car services to pick them up.
I need those tennis balls for school!!!! Anyone know where I can get some "recycled" tennis balls?
how much is the chair? and where can i get one?