Locally made and ecological

Designer Timo Hoisko has created the Farmline chair, designed for the EcoDesign - special exibition in Helsinki, Finland. Designer explains:

- I believe in sustainable development, and in the design of our products we should promote nature-conserving
renewable materials. I wanted to design an ecological chair using locally-produced hemp fiber, a rare
material in the furniture industry that I believe would create new opportunites in furniture design.

Hemp fiber is an ecological material, as it is cultvated and processed locally at a near-by farm. This is carried in the name itself: ”Farmline”. Hemp fber can be recycled thanks to its adhesive (PET), enabling one to reuse it for good instead of throwing it away - thus its life cycle does not end in the litter box. All of the products materials can be recycled and then re-introduced in producton.

The body of the chair consists of only a single metal tube that runs in a threadlike fashion around the chair,
forming three legs. The cuplike seat is atached to the body from the front and from the backrest, and the chair’s skeletal structure allows it to be stacked.