I’m a big fan of wool, as anyone who has ever heard me speak will tell you.  Wool rocks.  It’s renewable, anti-static, resilient, dust mite resistant, won’t go up in a fire ball if exposed to flame (no need for fire retardant), and at the end of it’s usefulness will go back quietly to that good earth from which it came.

So you can imagine how excited I was to see that Mickus Projects has created a chair using only wool and steel.

Created using digital fabrication techniques, from thick sheets of industrial wool felt, the Relief Chair is built up layer upon layer.  The precision cut pieces of felt are adhered to the steel frame using non-toxic, water based adhesives.  Once completed, any scrap material remaining is reused for other Mickus Projects pieces, such as the Refill Pillow.

By using thick wool felt, Mickus was able to avoid using upholstery foam, which is saturated in fire retardant and cannot biodegrade.   Add to that the recyclable steel frame and you have a chair with some serious sustainable creed!

Available online from Branch.