Ivan Christianto is an Indonesia-based designer obsessed with product re-use. The self-described "sustainable materials specialist" and his firm, Ceha Ideatorium, seek out discarded objects—preferably in bulk—and bring them back into the functional world.
This is mostly impressively seen at Resto in Jakarta, a restaurant that Christianto and Co. designed with co-conspirators Iqra Firdausy and Erick van Houten. Sixty-five percent of the restaurant is physically comprised of repurposed objects.
Thus plastic palettes become banquette bases; coat hangers and plastic jugs are transformed into light fixtures; industrial machine switches turn the lights on and off; a 55-gallon drum becomes a sink.
