£3,000 CHAIR
An artist who collected 250 pieces of cutlery from charity shops has welded them together to make a chair worth £3,000.
Osian Batyka-Williams, 25, spent weeks welding the second-hand knives, forks and spoons for a university side-project.
The knives have been laid flat and knife prongs bent to ensure users are not stabbed when sitting.
The chair, which can hold someone weighing 16 stone, measures 80cm high, 85cm wide and 60cm deep.
Mr Batyka-Williams, who has also made chairs using reclaimed stainless steel tubes and doors, is now taking commissions for cutlery chairs starting at 3,000 pounds each.
The college tutor, from London Bridge, London, said: "I was researching restaurant waste and learned some restaurants buy new cutlery every nine months because it becomes tarnished.
"Throwing cutlery away is wasteful and sending it to be melted down and recast uses a lot of energy. I thought it would be better if I made something with it.
"Unfortunately the restaurants I contacted were only a couple of months into their cycle and had no cutlery to give me.
Finally finding lots of cutlery in charity shops, he decided to build a chair with a wooden frame, although her found it difficult to wrap the cutlery around it.
He added: "I did away with the frame and joined the cutlery together with a spot welder - starting with the legs and working upwards.
"I realised cutlery could be a hazardous material to make a chair from and didn't want anybody being poked or stabbed when they sat on it.
"I used relatively blunt eating knives and laid them flat. The fork prongs have been bent slightly or covered with spoon heads.
Although Mr Batyka-Williams says the chair is fully functional, he expects it to be used "more as a piece of art and as a topic of conversation."
(Telegraph)
jollyweez
Putting such a high price on such pathetic junk reminds me of the children's story about The Emperor Who Wore No Clothes.