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The t-shirt chair
Copyright Green Furniture Award
Green Furniture Award is a furniture design competition to encourage Outstanding Sustainable Design and it is awarded during the Stockholm Furniture Fair. For the 2011 Green Furniture Award the committee received 62 contributions, from where 34 outside Sweden. Maria Westerberg won the first price for her "T-shirt Chair" who uses worn textiles and bent wire fence in order to form a colourful chair.
Maria graduated 2008 from Konstfacks Interior Architecture and furniture design. Since then she has made a Recycle interior collection for Indiska, made conceptual installations in fridges for a landscape architect office in Berlin and now exibit in Greenhouse 2011 at Stockholm Furniture Fair with her expressive and playful design. Significant for her work is organic shapes, using materials in a new context and often very colourful. Her most famous work until now is a chair called "T-shirt chair", that also is the 1st prize of Green Furniture Award 2011 and by that also is produced by Green Furniture Sweden.
