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Wingback Chair from Recycled Playground Slide

Holy re-use, Batman! This intimate yellow chair looks like the perfect hideaway for a mod super-villain (who might sit in it while discussing evil schemes on this phone). The yellow chair frame is made from a reclaimed jungle gym slide that the chair’s maker, Evan Dublin, found at the Build It Green salvage yard in Astoria, Queens.

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Evan recently finished his undergraduate degree at Pratt Institute, where he majored in industrial design. Jonas Workroom, a Manhattan upholsterer, did the upholstery work on the chair, which Evan describes as a wing-back. The upholstery fabric is a wool blend, with foam padding underneath. The legs are white oak. Evan calls the one-of-a-kind creation the Slide Chair. We call it a promising start to a young designer’s career.

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  1. [...] playground equipment right?…which is why I have to share this with you…I just saw it at Readymade magazine. Get that ugly yellow playground slide thing out of you beautiful garden and re-purpose it into a [...]

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