Smart Ocean chair by Niels Diffrient for Humanscale
Dezeen Showroom:Humanscale has reimagined its Diffrient Smart office chair, created by the late American industrial designer Niels Diffrient, using plastic made from recycled fishing nets.
Called Smart Ocean, each of these chairs is formed from close to one kilogram of recycled nets, collected from the ocean and turned into pellets by California-based company Bureo.
Smart Ocean is an office chair
Since the design was originally released in 2019, Humanscale has recycled approximately 4,536 kilograms of nets into Smart Ocean chairs. Ocean plastic has become one of the greatest threats to our oceans and discarded fishing nets are the worst kind of ocean plastic, explained Humanscale founder and CEO Bob King.