Recycled Mattress Furniture: Madam Rubens Collection

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Doug Gunzelmann in Home+Decor

Living in the city I see discarded mattresses out on the curb every week. They are difficult to recycle, create a large amount of waste, and no one wants to use someone else’s old mattress. Frank Willems has created funky furniture by bending and folding mattress into usable forms.

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The project was born after a trip to the dump, in the designers own words:

At a visit to a waste processing facility I learned almost all types of waste appeared to have a destination, except mattresses. They cause trouble because they get stuck between the shredders…For this reason, I started to work with old mattresses.

Frank takes the mattress materials and folds them together, straps them down onto old furniture pieces, and sprays the whole object with a “hygienic, water-resistant foam coating, and finished with a pliable, soft paint.” The end result is a strange and intriguing blend of forms, textures, and mass that give new life to very unwanted material.

via Apartment Therapy and Cool Hunting.

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Design, Furniture, materials, recycle

10 Responses to “ Recycled Mattress Furniture: Madam Rubens Collection ”

Mattress

13. Apr, 2009

These are crazy! Maybe I’ll try this with my old mattress.

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Bob

17. Jun, 2009

I sell mattress in Singapore, we do face a lot of problems with the disposal of old mattress.

It is bulky and some of the branded mattress are really hard to tear apart. I have never in my life though that mattress could be recycled this way.

This is super cool! Well done!!

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Home and Furniture

15. Jul, 2009

great post, thanks

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- Sandy
  
  24. Jul, 2009
  
  job well done..
  
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Flexsteel Furniture

09. Oct, 2009

Very interesting I could not figure out what these pieces were until I realized they were old mattress materials! Very good concept and actually pretty stylish design.

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Sofa Mattress Retailer

05. Nov, 2009

This is a really neat idea!! I’ve never seen anything like it before. You must have a great imagination!!

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