What about a Sinclair C5: would be about as useful chopped up as it was when new!
Damien Hirst, eat your heart out - these guys chop up TAXIS
Yes, it’s that time of year again when the design world presents its latest creations. The ideas shown off here will no doubt make it into very well-heeled home in the coming weeks – and gives the rest of us a glimpse of what’s coming in a year or two. Vehicle Wall Art slices of motoring culture Vehicle Wall Art slices of …
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Thursday 18th September 2014 14:57 GMT Irongut
A place in Glasgow used to do half cars decades ago. London catching up as usual. ;)
I love the Hopper seat. I'd buy that (well probably can't afford it but I'd like to). I was there when he proposed to his wife.
I used to use old bike pistons as ashtrays in the early 90s. Seems I was ahead of my time.
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Thursday 18th September 2014 15:38 GMT Peter Simpson 1
Motoart
http://www.motoart.com/
They do it with pieces of classic airplanes. Ejection seat lounge chair and vertical stabilizer conference tables trump your chopped up taxis and wheel rims, even if they are chromed.
// the cost is as stratospheric as the aircraft from which the parts came
// just the thing for the SPB office, though
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Thursday 18th September 2014 15:44 GMT Khaptain
Re: Motoart
In my last company, managing private aircraft, our offices had a lot of this "furniture", it was extremely aesthetic, well made, obviously rock solid and was always a subject of conversation with our clients.
Just wish I could have afforded some of it for home, it would have been great to have a couple of pieces in the garage.
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Thursday 18th September 2014 16:00 GMT Shrimpling
£7499 for the Suzuki chair... but that does include delivery.
http://www.mementoexclusives.com/crescent-suzuki-world-superbike-office-chair.html
The Health and Safety lady at work was saying I needed a new office chair... now I just need to persuade my boss that my back is the same shape as a Suzuki engine and I'm on to a winner!
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Thursday 18th September 2014 19:08 GMT Chris G
Not that much that is new in the world
I used to make ashtrays out of Lycoming aero engine pistons in the '70s as did many other engineers in the trade.
I have been in at least three bars and restaurants in California that had half a Cadillac, Yellow cab or other car chopped in half and glued to the wall.
The Mistral Club In Beckenham South London had a car as the DJ booth for years.
I gave a Martin Baker M1 Ejector seat to my mate for a wedding present when I was his best man 30 odd years ago (his new wife was REEEAAALLY impressed).
I find the art and fashion worlds don't really do New they just rehash something old or if it's less than Old it's called retro.
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Friday 19th September 2014 11:40 GMT Vic
Re: Not that much that is new in the world
I have been in at least three bars and restaurants in California that had half a Cadillac, Yellow cab or other car chopped in half and glued to the wall.
We've got this at a car-repair place in Southampton.
The number plate spacing used to be less subtle, but they were told to change it...
Vic.
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Friday 19th September 2014 15:47 GMT Mike Moyle
Re: London catching up as usual?
Back in the early '80s, when Banana Republic's thing was comfortable and durable traveling clothes -- before they went all Ralph-Lauren-y -- the store in Cambridge, MA, had a military Jeep that was sliced diagonally in half, and bisected by one of the main windows with one half outside of the store and the other half inside.
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Thursday 18th September 2014 14:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
Prior Art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_%28series_5%29 - see episode 6
"The presenters each have to buy a Porsche for less than £1500 and put it through a series of tests. ... Clarkson wins in the end by selling his car as spare parts and as "furniture",
See http://www.digitalcupcake.net/2012/01/02/porsche-entertainment-center/
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Thursday 18th September 2014 15:03 GMT Anonymous Custard
Re: Prior Art
That episode (or at least them doing it) was what sprang to mind when I read the article too, although my Google-Fu hadn't got as detailed as yours in finding it again. So have an upvote for saving me the trouble.
Making furniture and other stuff from car parts has been around for years even aside from that, although I guess the pedigree of some of the stuff in the article lifts it above that somewhat (and does something similar to the price). Certainly the chair is nice though.
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Thursday 18th September 2014 15:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Prior Art
Yup, Grand Design, the Waterworks one with the Mini as a desk springs to mind.
Also check out Sir Peter Rigby of SCC fame furniture.
A glass-topped coffee table made from the radial engine of a Cessna Bobcat
Sir Peter’s desk is made from a port tailplane from a Hawk jet
A chrome-coated ejector seat from a Canberra B2 bomber
A large table made from the centre section of a Rolls-Royce Avon jet engine
http://readymadeinvest.com/interview-sir-peter-rigby/
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Thursday 18th September 2014 21:03 GMT Dave 126
Re: Just
>fools and their money....
Er yeah...
if I only had a tenner, it would be foolish of me to be parted from it. Agreed.
If I had ten million quid, and all my shelter, food and booze was assured, what I do with the odd thousand quid doesn't matter a damn. That's kind of the point of having shitloads of money - being able able to spend someof it without thinking very much.
I'm not saying it's tasteful, or right - just that it ain't necessarily foolish.
And heck - if I bought some dodgy artwork, and sold it for ten times the amount ten years later - would I still be a fool, or would I be a prophet or just a jammy bugger?
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Thursday 18th September 2014 21:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Mini prices start at £3,600 (including VAT)
>Remind me what value was added.
What mean you 'value'?
Value (in monetry terms) is, be definition, what someone will pay for it at any given time, and in any given place.
I've sold an orginal Pakamac on eBay for £35 cos some fool/fashionista wanted to pay that.
This year, a friend gave me a disposable poncho for free because she wasn't going to any more festivals this summer - and a week later its value to me (in real terms) when packing up my tent in the rain was at leat equivalent to a cup of coffee or two.
I've earnt a wage (not a commission; I was an assistant, not an artist) making artworks to sell to wealthy buyers. I like to cook dinner for people who give me ponchos.
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Friday 19th September 2014 04:04 GMT Mark 85
Re: Mini prices start at £3,600 (including VAT)
You get two pieces of wall art out of one Mini... and maybe assorted tidbits for lamps, etc.
OTOH, what the others are saying.... not a new idea. Car parts place down the road from me as the ass end of a Buick Riviera sticking out side of one wall. The front and back seats are just inside the door by the coffee pot. Been there for at least 15 years.
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Friday 19th September 2014 04:51 GMT Allan George Dyer
Pure Genius!
Not for recycling bits of old vehicles as furniture and whatnot, which, as illustrated by many other commentators above, is quite a common idea. Yes, it's creative, and can be quite cool, but not genius-level, blow-your-socks-off creative.
The real genius of the "100% Design" exhibitors is persuading someone that *their* creativity is worth a X00% markup.