Polymath-plumber makes unique furniture & artifacts from waste
Self-taught designer Fernando Abellanas considers the city his playground. One day he drove under a highway overpass in his hometown of Valencia, Spain, and inspired by the concrete columns and overgrown vegetation, he returned later to install a prefabricated microstudio on the underside of the bridge.
Using the existing concrete beams of the bridge as roof and walls, he built a two-part “urban cabin” that only takes shape when he cranks one part - a horizontal elevator- to connect with the furniture portion which hangs anchored to the opposing wall.
Abellanas designed, built and installed the structure single-handedly, and nearly everything in his life he has crafted himself. He rebuilt his home on his own, including the roof, floors, plumbing, and nearly all the furniture. A self-taught plumber by trade, he didn’t have a formal design education so he used his home as a showroom for his work. Today, he sells his furniture under the label Lebrel and continues to work as a plumber to ensure funding for his subversive urbanism projects (which include boating inside an inundated Valencia metro tunnel and crafting a train “car” from an old motorcycle for a 9 kilometer journey down a new Spanish rail line).
Lebrel: https://www.instagram.com/lebrelfurniture
Photo credit (and train car video): Enrique Escandell http://www.enriqueescandell.com/
Bridge studio video clip:Jose Manuel Pedrajas
Original story: https://faircompanies.com/videos/fernando-abellanas-makes-unique-artifacts-using-urban-traces/
Видео Polymath-plumber makes unique furniture & artifacts from waste канала Kirsten Dirksen
Using the existing concrete beams of the bridge as roof and walls, he built a two-part “urban cabin” that only takes shape when he cranks one part - a horizontal elevator- to connect with the furniture portion which hangs anchored to the opposing wall.
Abellanas designed, built and installed the structure single-handedly, and nearly everything in his life he has crafted himself. He rebuilt his home on his own, including the roof, floors, plumbing, and nearly all the furniture. A self-taught plumber by trade, he didn’t have a formal design education so he used his home as a showroom for his work. Today, he sells his furniture under the label Lebrel and continues to work as a plumber to ensure funding for his subversive urbanism projects (which include boating inside an inundated Valencia metro tunnel and crafting a train “car” from an old motorcycle for a 9 kilometer journey down a new Spanish rail line).
Lebrel: https://www.instagram.com/lebrelfurniture
Photo credit (and train car video): Enrique Escandell http://www.enriqueescandell.com/
Bridge studio video clip:Jose Manuel Pedrajas
Original story: https://faircompanies.com/videos/fernando-abellanas-makes-unique-artifacts-using-urban-traces/
Видео Polymath-plumber makes unique furniture & artifacts from waste канала Kirsten Dirksen
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