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An Elegant Stool from Leather Offcuts, by Industrial Designer Friedrich Gerlach
The Lecrase Stool
This Lecrase Stool is by German industrial designer Friedrich Gerlach.
The form might suggest plywood, but it's in fact made of leather offcuts from the automotive and fashion industry; the carefully-chosen folds not only give the stool its flair, but exploits the material to allow it to support itself.
"In a world where increasing consumption generates more leftover materials, I see these not as waste, but as valuable resources," Gerlach told the Maison&Objet trade fair. "I find it exciting to work with what's already there – designing in a way that anticipates transformation, reuse, or even disappearance."
The stool won Gerlach a 2025 Rising Talent Award.
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I don't get it? It looks like its made of quite large pieces of leather, certainly not offcuts. or is it made from chopped up scraps? like plywood?
Offcuts means small pieces. This chair is therefore made by a material that uses the offcuts as the raw material for it's production.
Ye need to hear more about this material or why automotive “offcuts” are so large. Cuz, otherwise seems someone went dumpster diving, and scored—ie. Doesn’t seem sustainable.
What are off-cuts? We need a decent definition of 'off-cuts'.
So far, from what I have seen as claims to use waste I oppose the idea it is a sustainable source of material.
Wonder if you could do a redneck knock off of this that could fit in a five gallon bucket?