bicycle chairs

Chairs from disused bicycles — a furniture line built from one of the city's most common discarded objects.

San Diego, like most American cities, produces an enormous quantity of disused bicycle frames each year. Bicycle Chairs treats this material stream as a resource rather than a waste problem — translating tubular steel geometry into seating that retains the language of the original object.

Each chair is welded together from bicycle parts pulled from junkyards in Tijuana. Frames become frames. Seats become seats. Handlebars, chains, spokes, and rims become the rest — armrests, backrests, structural reinforcement. Nothing was bought new.

The series was commissioned for a restaurant in San Diego and built across the border in Tijuana. Each chair is one of a kind, depending on what bikes came in that week.