new at smow: Rag Chair by droog

One of the most exciting moments of our trip to the ICFF, New York was our visit to the droog flagship store in SoHo.

For those who don’t know droog, firstly forget everything you accept about the separation between art and furniture design. And then having convinced yourself there is no divide imagine your Dutch and design something.

OK droog also have some fantastic “normal” designs – but their real strength is pushing the borders of absurd until they become the most obvious thing ever.

Rag Chair by Tejo Remy is perhaps one of the best examples.

To the untrained eye Rag Chair is a staple of old rags held together by plastic strapping.

It’s one of those things that would invariably be thrown out by a cleaner were it to be displayed at an art gallery in west London or downtown Amsterdam.

Rag Chair is however the near perfect genuine recycled chair.

Whether at exhibitions, in trade publications or on websites it is almost impossible to avoid designers and producers claiming that that their product is “recycled”.

Normally they aren’t – or at least often the production input are such that they negate any real environmental benefit the product may posses.

With Rag Chair one genuinely take old rags and creates seat from them.

And so one has minimal inputs for the production of a new chair – and minimal inputs for the disposal of old textiles.

And all that divided by two.

The seat itself is wonderfully stable, comfortable – and best of all you can stuff it with your own textiles.

Genius

Rag Chair by Tejo Remy from droog is more than a wonderful addition to any home or office, it is an ingenious way of bringing a personal and truly individual touch to any room.

Rag Chair by Tejo Remy fro droog