Recycled Rubber Potting Tarp
An RT1home exclusive, made from 100% recycled rubber. These rubber tarps were designed for re-potting your plants in small, indoor spaces — or anywhere you don’t want to make a mess.
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Read more about designers, innovators and entrepreneurs who have worked with the material in various ways.
Old tyres get new life as bicycle bags
Through chemical recycling, old tyres are transformed into new bicycle bags. BASF and baesiq collaborate in a production process that reduces the use of fossil resources and lowers CO₂ emissions.
Monogram
At Moderna Museet in Stockholm you can see Robert Rauschenberg’s iconic work Monogram in the Viewing Storage. Come and experience the world-famous goat alongside other works and archival materials, including letters and photographs related to Rauschenberg’s artistic practice.
Mini purse made from up-cycled bike tyres
The 2 Tired Bag is made of up-cycled inner tubes from bike tyres, hand sewn using leather-working techniques.
Doormat made from recycled tyre rubber
A doormat made with 80% recycled tyres and 20% natural rubber.
Torstensson Art & Design
A plant pot made of recycled tyres at the National Museum in Oslo.
Rwandan entrepreneur turns discarded tyres into fashionable footwear
An entrepreneur in Rwanda turns discarded tyres into fashionable footwear.
Second Rubberduck
It’s easy to do a double take when a rubber duck makes an entrance into monumental art. “It will continue to provoke reactions. People will find it beautiful, amusing, ugly, dull — and everyone will have plenty of opinions about it, which is precisely the point,” said a local politician at the sculpture’s unveiling.
Elle Decor Italy Furniture
This week’s design gallery is a collection of moving bodies made of rubber (and patterned).
The tyre sculptures of Betsabée Romero and Chakaia Booker
An industrial aesthetic, shown at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Tire Monument
Found tyres cast in marble dust resin.
Belly of the Beast
A hillside folly with a scruffy coat made from old tyres.
Chair for Dali by Kei Harada / DO.DO
The designer focused on the characteristics of rubber that looked the same but performed differently. He came up with the idea of the recliner chair by using the flexibility of rubber.
The Soundhouse
The Soundhouse is home to music practice rooms, a percussion rehearsal room and recording studios. Huge half-tonne sheets of vulcanised rubber were fixed over the structure with stainless steel studs to create a quilted effect that conveys the building’s well-insulated qualities.
Tsibi Geva covers Israel’s Venice Biennale pavilion in tyres
The Israeli artist wrapped his country’s Venice pavilion in old car tyres and filled it with a mixture of found architectural and household objects to explore ideas about the home.
Rubberhouse by Cityförster
The architecture collective Cityförster has completed a wooden house in the Netherlands with a black rubber skin.
Artist’s studio in black rubber and seashells
Studio Mutt covers a seaside artist’s studio in black rubber and seashells.
Studio Swine designs furniture for Henry Ford
Studio Swine used very hard rubber to craft this black furniture collection, designed for American industrialist Henry Ford’s failed utopian city.
From waste to wonder
AI envisions recycled tyres as sustainable construction materials.
Soled
Disused materials including tyres, burlap sacks and rope are recycled into footwear for the developing world in this project by Ravensbourne university students.
Black Ruby
Rubber pellets made from recycled car tyres form the knobbly surfaces of these bowls and pots by the Dutch designer Debbie Wijskamp.
A hard drive cooling cover made from recycled tyres
Ashcroft Design proposes a cooling cover for hard drives, made from recycled tyres.
Carved Tyres
Hand-carved car tyres, variable dimensions.
Center for Group Dynamics and Institutional Analysis
Black rubber was used as a roof covering and for the eaves.
Ash Allen’s flatpack ‘Sticks and Stones’ stool
The Melbourne-based designer was inspired by two elements of a Japanese rock garden — a naturally worn ‘skipping’ stone and bamboo stems. The stool sits on three lightweight Tasmanian oak legs with a heavy cast ‘stone’ seat above that incorporates recycled rubber crumb for texture and toughness.
A store built from recycled plastic bottles, tyres and cans
A store built from recycled plastic bottles, rubber tyres and cans.
Wool warp with recycled rubber inner tube weft
A woven piece combining a wool warp with a weft of recycled rubber inner tube.
Rubber Glory: outdoor bench from recycled inner tubes
An outdoor bench made from recycled inner tubes.