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

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 ...