Ever wondered what could be done with a 1,200 foot spool of rope? Designer Josh Urso answers the question with this marvelous innovation in table design: KNOOP (Dutch for “knot”) is his latest line of table designs, which uses resin-impregnated military-grade rope to deliver wonderful inspiration to often discarded materials.
Beautiful, but impossible to dust. One month, it’ll be on the way to the charity thrift store. Hardly forward looking. And can we talk about the purpose produced inch-thick glass?
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Guys, don’t you think it is a good “repurposing” of an otherwise to be discarded material? no one would actually make a stool like this with new or still usable rope. And, how many times you need to recycle a material for it to be eco-friendly? I know there’s quite a few materials that can be recycled again and again, but what about the embedded energy of those processes?
I think design wise is a good response for a material that otherwise would be thrown away.
Hmmm…a giant, non-recyclable, initially cool-looking (curiosity factor) dust, dander and food bits magnet that is virtually uncleanable. Methinks perhaps would be better used as…rope!
Coolness factor: 10
Sustainability factor: 0
This is repurposing, NOT recycling. Nobody is producing 1200 foot spools of rope as a manufacturing waste headed for a landfill.
This is not an example of sustainable design and just serves to promote trendy design. Should it even be featured on inhabitat?
Very neat- however, the rope can never be reecycled now that it is impregnated with resin- that is a waste of material as well.
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