Joel Hester
Dallas, TX
Table
Car hood (1970 Chevrolet CST/10 pickup)
David Raful
El Salvador
Chair
Truck tire tubes
Bike Furniture Design
Marquette, MI
Chair
Bicycle tubes and tires
David Raful searches for chairs abandoned in the streets of El Salvador and skillfully reupholsters them in used tire inner tubes.
Joel Hester mines automobile scrap yards for material for his furniture, which takes advantage of the rich paint colors and rusted surfaces of discarded cars.
The Bike Chair is built of reject bicycle wheels that are joined and bent to form before being upholstered with used tire tubes.