Waste material is still a present remnant in many industrial production methods. Designer Thomas Ballouhey is hitting back with an industrial process of his own, by making useful objects from the results.
Having gathered and restructured industrial scrap into low-tech yet beguiling functional objects, Ballouhey uses a sandblaster to coat the surface of each new piece with a layer of textured sand and glue. This new homogenous ‘skin’ forms a protective outer coating that also serves to neutralise any previous aesthetic ‘history’, creating an entirely new piece in the process.
