We have great admiration for those who exhibit regard for the environment and want to co-exist in harmony with the surroundings. Belgian-based eco-conscious designer, Mathilde Wittock, is one of the flag bearers of sustainability. She has set the benchmark high with her bespoke Bounce chair, made from mindfully upcycled 515 discarded tennis balls. As she has played the sport herself, she knows the amount of tennis balls that end up in waste. To limit the surplus and tackle environmental pollution, Wittock has taken the initiative of transforming waste into exquisite furniture.
Out from the courts, tennis balls are now furnishing your living rooms in the form of a well-crafted Bounce Chair that is sustainable and admiringly creative. It is cushionless: only the padding of intricately arranged tennis balls provides comfort.
A fluid design gives the chair a defining and structural excellence. What makes it outstanding and significant is the making process which is long, strenuous, and done by hand. In the process, every ball is precisely cut, colored, and ingeniously assembled to turn a seemingly ordinary sports item into a functional and aesthetically pleasing furniture piece.
This upcycling process, notedly, helps cut CO2 emissions by up to 15.5 kilograms. Infusing indoors with innovation and pleasing tones, the chair is available in a choice of orange/red, black/green, navy/green, light/dark green, and beige/brown tones.
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Wittock, with her environmentally conscious designs, ensures that each chair is recyclable at the end of its life. Being a sustainable designer, her initiative of tackling environmental waste from tennis balls has led her to find a state-of-the-art process of changing the way we see this ordinary material. So far she has reused 6,670 balls.
The Bounce chair is a part of the ‘SoundBounce’ project that tackles the ecological challenge of waste from tennis clubs by designing furniture pieces like benches, room dividers, and chairs from thousands of tennis balls. The surface design is sound-absorbing, sustainable, and crafted to soundproof interior spaces. With the Bounce chair, Wittock transcends traditional furniture making and gives new artistic life to unconventional material.
