MVE‑Collection is a Paris-based design studio that creates furniture and objects from reclaimed materials and construction‑site waste. They created these Brique furniture pieces:
They're made of reclaimed bricks that are assembled and joined, not by mortar, but by an unspecified "molten metal."
The surfaces are then sanded down.
The studio was founded by French architect Vincent Eschalier and designer Mattéo Lecuru, who previously worked together at Eschalier's architecture firm. Interestingly, the duo was inspired to start the spin-off firm by the amount of waste they encountered during conventional architecture projects. "We became attentive to the materials we were demolishing or uncovering during the [demo] phase of each project," Eschalier told Icon, "from aluminium window frames to the brick hidden behind plaster or stone rubble from old floors."
"'The idea is to recover as much material as possible from a building and reintegrate it, in the form of furniture, back into that same space," says Lecuru. "It also highlights, through material, the identity and history of a place, while giving the furniture and its environment a distinctive character."
Eschalier notes that due to his work as an architect, the studio has first crack at the materials on offer during a renovation. With any luck, more architects will start paying attention to that, rather than simply waiting for dumpsters to be filled so that the "real" work can begin.
