While Christmas season for most of us is all about shopping, decorating the christmas tree, wrapping up gifts and spending some lovely moments with family, for French designer Fabien Cappello it’s time to sharpen his tools. “There is 1.8 millions christmas trees in the street of London in January. I took advantage of this huge amount of wood shipped every year in the city and investigate the finite economy of Christmas trees drawing on this local resource to create furniture from the discarded wood.” – says Fabien Cappello
As part of Cappello’s ‘Christmas Tree Project’, he picks up the disposed wooden pieces and creates ssome amazing three & four legged stools in his workshop. Coppello carves the legs with basic tools without using any machines and that is evident in the details and joinery. The raw, unfinished legs gives the stool a very organic look and feel.
About Fabien Cappello:
Fabien Cappello is a product and furniture designer. He defines himself as an activist as his practice shows a wish to redefine the role of the designer in our society. Fabien Cappello graduated from the Royal College of Art where his graduate show included an investigation into the finite economy of Christmas trees drawing on this local resource to create furniture from the discarded wood. Since then he has been working from his studio in London on different commission and self-initiated project. Each of his project – whether limited edition furniture, industrial products or even public installation – are constantly informing each other, creating his general vision.
