Facundo Poj Furniture Designs

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Feb 16th 2009 at 4:01PM

Miami-based furniture designer Facundo Poj believes in the freedom of the line. His bamboo designs extend from the idea of continuing a single stroke of a line on a paper. His pieces are made of Plyboo, bamboo-based plywood. He layers the Plyboo with non-toxic glue and threads them with oak dowels to create designs that are solid but soft-edged. All of his pieces are limited editions or unique.

He also makes" re-incarnated" pieces from airplane parts, antique bathtubs and other finds. My favorite is the 727 jet lounge made from two aluminum Boeing 727 emergency exit doors, steel legs and a covering of Argentine cowhide. The cow hide comes from Argentinean "Holando-Argentina" cows, milking cows which are allowed to grow old and live a full life before they are sacrificed. This is, as Facundo Poj puts it "experienced skin." I asked Facundo just how he got his hands on a pair of airplane doors. He says he lives near an airline graveyard in South Florida and established a relationship with the manager and buys some parts before they are recycled. The piece above is at the Avant Gallery in the Miami Design District and sells for $4500. He has also made a long sofa out of the landing flaps from the wing of a large DC-10 jet.

A video of Facundo Poj hard at work is after the jump.

Gallery: Facundo Poj Designs