Recycling results in award-winning chair.(OF MATERIAL INTEREST)

Advanced Materials & Processes,  August, 2005  

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Six schools were honored in the ICFF Design School competition at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, held at the Javits Center in New York City May 14-17. Their winning entries were exhibited at the annual fair. The Industrial Design Program in the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, was among those singled out by ICFF.

Its entry, "Material Presence," explored the "expressive capacities of materials and processes ... [including] non-normative uses of materials: plaster, fiber, paper, and ...

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