You may have thoughts tennis balls were just for tennis – but creative Dutch designer Tejo Remy has found a another use for the bright yellow bouncy felt-and-rubber balls. The same material qualities that make tennis balls bright, bouncy and easy-to-spot make for seating that is comfortable, sturdy, and extremely eye-catching. While many museum goers observe works of art perched upon the usual wooden bench, visitors at Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen are able to sit and stare in style on these colorful and clever tennis ball benches designed by Tejo Remy and Rene VeenHuizen. The seats are fashioned from a steel frame and dozens of tennis balls, to bring a bit of color and bounce to the museum’s interior. We love the idea of museum furniture design as another opportunity for art. Tejo Remy was one of the speakers at our recent Reclaiming Design panel, during which he mentioned this project and its integration of found and repurposed vernacular objects.
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Very different and unusual. A nice touch for an art museum, but could be fun elsewhere as well.
I really do like it, but I think it’s a bit disingenuous to call repurposing of this nature ecologically friendly (if, indeed, he does), since these are very obviously not post-consumer tennis balls, they’re just being diverted from one open loop waste stream to another equivalent one.
If there’s a little flex in that frame, though, I bet it would be pretty comfortable.
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Malcolm (my cat) would love one.
I’m in complete agreement with Androo. Neat? Yes. Ecological? Nope.
Green washing green tennis balls?
If anybody plays tennis, you know how quickly tennis balls go flat. I can’t even imagine the number of used tennis balls I have tossed in the trash in my lifetime. If the designer can team up with tennis centers to use their discarded balls (they could be washed), this project would have a much better impact. Also, I’d like to see a couch with some sort of back support, that would be nifty.
yes. pls use discarded flat tennis balls for our next bench! =)
yes i am in agreement with androo and tyler. tennis centers could be wonderful resources for supplying used balls to designers but wouldnt it also be great to motivate individuals who play on public courts to also bring their used balls there?
It is possible that they used used balls and then washed them- then, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between new and used. I don’t even play that much tennis but it is true that you go through balls like nobody’s business and the only reuse that I know of is giving them to dogs- but how many balls can you really give a dog?? So using them for some other purpose where you could take advantage of their springyness is a great idea.
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charles furniture from ireland did something like this a couple of years ago. it cements my feeling that in design an idea is worth nothing but when one is a high profile designer like tejo hob knobing among the clique within dutch design this is deemed ingenious
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um why do tennis balls go flat
i was working with the same imagery(balls) but in a different medium. while browsing came across ur site. i’m glad i did. stopped me from recreating the image and also gave me a challenge of creating something different.great work.