Green to the Extreme

Talk about designing for the environment.

London Designer Asif Khan has designed a range of tables and chairs made from freeze dried flowers. His design is part of the Designers in Residence program, at the Design Museum in London. The project named Harvest (how appropriate) aims to produce furniture from plants found around london.

They use a plant called Gypsophilia as it has a natural ability to interlock. The plant material is put in moulds and freeze-dried over several weeks before it is bonded with resin.