Global Design News
Berlin, Germany. April 2022.
Ineke Hans is giving industrially designed furniture a circular life with the Dutch brand Circuform, relaunching her award-winning design from 2011.
Founded by Sander van Doorn, Circuform is a new company that gives industrially designed furniture a circular life: minimizing the use of expensive new raw materials and maximizing reuse.
The result is REX.
The design has been constructively refined to meet its original intent.
The injection molds have been re-engineered for recycled material, making the chair sustainable and fully recyclable.
REX is designed for office, healthcare, education, hospitality, and domestic use.
Production has the lowest possible ecological impact.
For instance, REX is made from recycled PA6 sourced from office chair components, fishing nets, carpets, and industrial waste.
Plastic is a unique material, but in the contract market—despite preferences to the contrary—furniture is often used for short periods, such as in pop-up offices or due to changing circumstances.
Circuform takes plastic back.
REX is the first Dutch deposit chair and can always be returned to local Circuform collection points for a guaranteed €20.00 refund.
Returned deposit chairs are checked, cleaned, repaired if necessary, and resold, again with a deposit. Broken chairs are shredded into valuable raw material for new production.
Project: REX Chair
Designer: Ineke Hans
Manufacturer: Circuform BV
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