JILL: I’ve heard people describe Brooklyn as a hotbed of the salvage / reuse movement. Would you say there is a movement going on that is particular to Brooklyn or to Williamsburg?
CARLOS: I don’t know. I think that this attitude has always been in the neighborhood even back before this area was gentrified. I mean its almost like thrift recycling furniture for your next apartment. That’s always been the case with artists and people who have no money.
BART: Even just recycling spaces. There are all these bars that are named after their original occupants, you know?
CARLOS: Yeah, I think in some ways that has always been here. On top of that, this is probably the most industrial and toxic area that we are sitting on in New York. I think that has made people conscious of trying to make things better.
[...] design and insightful discussion from Dwell Editor-in-Chief Sam Grawe and designers Carlos Salgado of Scrapile, Tejo Remy of Droog fame, and Matt Gagnon. The conversation touched on a variety of issues [...]
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Beautiful stuff. I love seeing green and sustainable projects on here. I wonder if they go after construction waste, too. That’d probably be a different line entirely, but could make for some lovely stuff with a rougher look.
I’m looking at your ‘Green’ Furniture designs made of assorted laminated woods. I notice you have chosen to laminated various plywood and chipboard with all kinds of hardwood. Having acquired this stuff by way of scrap piles, every piece of your wood will have a varying moisture content and therefore expand and contract differently from each peice adjacent to it. Especially in the case of plywood, which is extremely stable, and the hardwoods (while being only a section of a tree, are very much alive). How are you accounting for this material expansion in your designs? Do you let it aclimate? Are you kiln-drying each peice to the same moisture content?
-Nick