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I really do like it, but I think it’s a bit disingenuous to call repurposing of this nature ecologically friendly (if, indeed, he does), since these are very obviously not post-consumer tennis balls, they’re just being diverted from one open loop waste stream to another equivalent one.

If there’s a little flex in that frame, though, I bet it would be pretty comfortable.

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Malcolm (my cat) would love one.

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Green washing green tennis balls?

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yes. pls use discarded flat tennis balls for our next bench! =)

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It is possible that they used used balls and then washed them- then, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between new and used. I don’t even play that much tennis but it is true that you go through balls like nobody’s business and the only reuse that I know of is giving them to dogs- but how many balls can you really give a dog?? So using them for some other purpose where you could take advantage of their springyness is a great idea.

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[…] tennis balls after Wimbeldon - create a bench out of them of course! Created by Dutch designers Tejo Remy and Rene VennHuizen, these benches are fashioned with a steel frame surrounded by dozens of (new) tennis balls and are […]

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[…] Dutch designer Tejo Remy must have decided to give up tennis and sit around all day instead, so he took all the tennis balls he could find and turned them into these benches, selling the idea to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. It’s a prime example of what relaxed dope laws will do for the enlightenment of a culture. Come to think of it, tennis balls are fuzzy and cushy, so if you mount them to a steel frame like Tejo did here, these might just turn out to be comfy seats. Don’t try this with baseballs. [inhabitat] […]

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[…] designer Tejo Remy has made several couches/loungers/something at a place called Inhabit. I think they look quite comfortable. Though where’s the “love” […]

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[…] Dutch designer Tejo Remy must have decided to give up tennis and sit around all day instead, so he took all the tennis balls he could find and turned them into these benches, selling the idea to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. It’s a prime example of what relaxed dope laws will do for the enlightenment of a culture. Come to think of it, tennis balls are fuzzy and cushy, so if you mount them to a steel frame like Tejo did here, these might just turn out to be comfy seats. Don’t try this with baseballs. [inhabitat] […]

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[…] While that may be a distant dream for most of us we can always show our love for the game via the TENNIS BALL BENCHES by Remy/Veenhuizen! The seats are fashioned from a steel frame and dozens of tennis balls. Bedroom, […]

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charles furniture from ireland did something like this a couple of years ago. it cements my feeling that in design an idea is worth nothing but when one is a high profile designer like tejo hob knobing among the clique within dutch design this is deemed ingenious

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um why do tennis balls go flat