Milan-based designer Alessandro Garlandini is a co-founder of ilVespaio, "a creative workshop of social communication and design of eco-friendly products." After a fortuitous visit to a Whirlpool factory, Garlandini and his co-designers discovered the factory was throwing out components they no longer needed, some of them quite expensive.
ilVespaio couldn't let that stuff rot in the trash, and repurposed those parts into the Ri_piano table, made from a cooktop and reclaimed wood, and and the beautiful Scacchie-Re chess set, made from trashed Whirlpool components.
Hopefully a bunch of you are reading this and now thinking "Hmm, is there a factory near me?"
Check out more of ilVespaio's stuff on Coroflot.
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