Louis Ghost chair<\/a> bear little resemblance to the lawn chairs or stadium seats that come to mind when you first think of plastic seating.<\/p>\nThe chairs, which retail for $330 (the Victoria Ghost chair) and $410 (Louis Ghost armchair) have sold well since their release, at prices that were previously unthinkable for plastic, and have imbued the material with a less disposable quality that has made permanent plastic furniture seem like less of an oxymoron.<\/p>\n
With less than 4% of the 200 million tons of plastic\u00c2\u00a0 that is produced every year being recycled, lending a sense of design to plastic may do more for sustainability than we realize. Even if everyone doesn’t agree that plastic does anything for good design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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