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PW-20 Perch Chair

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PW-20 Perch Chair

Regular Pricing£559

Member pricing£475(-15%) · for approved members

Formed entirely from recycled plastic, the material is reclaimed, reprocessed, and re-engineered into a solid, load-bearing sheet. What was once discarded is transformed into something precise, durable, and intentionally designed.

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Specification
Front concept illustration of PW-20 Perch Chair
Front
Side concept illustration of PW-20 Perch Chair
Side
Three-quarter concept illustration of PW-20 Perch Chair
Three-quarter
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A record that travels with the piece.

What a piece is made from, how it came together and what happens to it next — held as one record rather than a page of claims.

Passport in development

Carbon against an imported chair

89.6%

Less CO₂e per chair

This chair7.8 kg CO₂e
Imported chair75 kg CO₂e
Saved in production
5.78 t CO₂e
Kept from landfill
2.58 t CO₂e
Per chair, against a comparable imported chair of the same weight. Totals across a run of 86 chairs. Figures from our own workshop calculation.

Passport record

pw-20-perch-chair

Material
100% recycled and 100% recyclable HIPS & HDPE
recorded
Total weight
0.92 kg
recorded
Total waste weight
138 g
recorded
Made at
London, UK
recorded
Assembled at
Oxford, UK
recorded
Waste stream
Packaging, bottle caps and damaged fittings
recorded
Feedstock
Known HDPE or PP — Single-polymer streams assessed separately
recorded
Preparation
Sorted, cleaned, dried and shredded to a controlled flake
recorded
Assembly
Stainless Steel Coutner sunk M6 Bolt
recorded
Repair
Components can be taken apart, replaced or reprocessed
recorded
End of life
Sent to London for shredding & reprocessing
recorded
Dimensions
765 mm high · 433 mm to the seat · 370 mm across the backrest
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How it's made

From packaging, bottle caps and damaged fittings to this piece.

A mixed visual language of colour and fleck, sorted into known polymers before it is shredded, pressed and machined.

Read the plastics stream

  1. Step 01

    Identify and sort

    Items are grouped by known polymer and colour. Incompatible pieces are removed.

  2. Step 02

    Wash and dry

    Residue and labels are removed so moisture and contamination do not compromise the next stage.

  3. Step 03

    Shred

    Material is reduced to a controlled flake, with colour mixes recorded for repeatable visual recipes.

  4. Step 04

    Heat and press

    Flakes are mixed with 100% recycled plastic and heated in a press and cooled under pressure into a stable sheet form.

  5. Step 05

    Machine and assemble

    Parts are cut and joined with reversible fixings where the design allows.

Van loaded with recovered cleaning-product bottles next to a plastic waste binMulti-colour plastic flake poured from a white bucket over a processing bedSheet of recovered material held by a vacuum lifter above a processing bedSheet of recovered material clamped to the CNC bed, ready to be cut

Designed from the sheet

Every part earns its place.

All of our furniture is made from a sheet of material, carefully designed so each part tessellates and we get the most from our waste material. Before anything is cut, the whole sheet is planned — nothing is drawn to look busy.

The design is modular, too. Everything can be taken apart, repaired or reprocessed into something else, and a part that does come off can go straight back into the next batch.

Nesting study on screen: chair parts packed across a sheet of recovered material before cutting
Animated exploded view of the chair separating into its parts and reassembling, study 02