KNOOP Rope Table from Josh Urso

8 thoughts on “KNOOP Rope Table from Josh Urso”

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  Joel January 29, 2008 at 11:10 pm

  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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  Leo November 29, 2007 at 6:38 pm

  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.

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  Annie November 29, 2007 at 11:08 am

  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!

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  Brian November 29, 2007 at 7:47 am

  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.

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  Andrew Carpenter November 29, 2007 at 4:29 am

  This is not an example of sustainable design and just serves to promote trendy design. Should it even be featured on inhabitat?

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  michael B November 28, 2007 at 5:35 pm

  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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