Designers Ayse Birsel and Bibi Seck, from Dakar, Senegal, have designed the Taboo Collection of furniture that contains 75% recycled garbage bags and plastic bottles. Transtech, owned by Marie Jo Sanchez Girardon, is fabricating the Taboo Collection. Transtech is a Senegalese maker of recycled plastic cisterns and septic tanks.
“Taboo stool and table draw inspiration from the daily habits of Western Africans, who traditionally sit on stools or squat on the floor around low tables to eat from a communal tray laden with food and then spend hours conversing and drinking Attaya tea, a potent gun-powder black tea infused with mint leaves and quantities of sugar,” explains the designers’ website.
The furniture colors include corals, blues, greens, where the end colour is largely dependent upon the recycled plastic content, giving a “careaux cassées,” finish similar to the local Dakar broken tile floors.
Taboo pieces can be used indoors or outdoors.
Visit: http://birselplusseck.com/
Via Contemporist
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