Architecture student designs an award-winning chair out of a shipping pallet
Montgomery's chair design prototype
BLACKSBURG, Va., May 20, 2008 -- Ever think of using a shipping pallet around the house? Andrew Montgomery of Falls Church, Va., a fifth-year architecture student in Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design, did. He designed a chair with a single shipping pallet and it won the Green Stewardship Award from Design Within Reach, a company that sells fully licensed furniture classics by major designers.
Montgomery's chair was on display in April in the Modern + Design + Function exhibition of innovative furniture by emerging designers in Design Within Reach studios in Washington, D.C.
Montgomery said, “Once a pallet is used and discarded, no one usually looks past its original purpose to ship goods. But underneath all the mistreatment during its initial use, there is beauty.”
Contact Heather Riley Chadwick at hrchadwi@vt.edu or (540) 231-2108.
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