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My name is Shay Dahari, I am an artist who design furniture from industrial waste.
The quality of the industrial waste is very very high because it was made of premium raw material,
which most of the times finds its way to landfills and crushers.
What I do is I take this waste and bring it back to the Circle of Life
I had a business for Leadership Training, and after prolonged illness I decided of an occupational change and to go back to something that I
very much enjoy doing which is working with my hands....
Craft, which I was always interested at and wanted to do it, but I had no idea how I can make a living out of it,
and after visiting a friend of mine where I saw furniture made out of very rough raw material,
I realized that I can make a living out of it and I immediately launched my studio
The working procedure here in the studio is divided into two parts, some things are being ordered from me and I create it from wood waste,
but there is also a whole process where I find the raw material in landfills, dumps, and I try to think how I can turn it into a home furniture
My work fills me with energy and that is one of the reasons I did this occupational change.
I'm waiting the whole night to get here in the morning. As soon as I enter the studio I get filled with creativity.
There is a lot of silence in the creation process and a great attachment to myself in the whole creation process,
which is on top of the feedback I get from my customers to the products I provide them that fulfill and excite me very much.
My vision is first of all to recycle as much as possible,
which mean to reach a state that we return to the cycle of life as much waste as we can.
This kind of a furniture that I make from wood waste, which could have been buried tomorrow or left to rot, returns to a home that cherish and
preserve that piece of furniture, and this furniture will most likely stay with that home for the next hundred years.
preserve that piece of furniture, and this furniture will most likely stay with that home for the next hundred years.
The beauty is in the defect, and when we know to select the defect we want to emphasize and we know to keep the raw material's character
before it became to that furniture, it has some kind of charm, some kind of expression, and it add a lot of worldliness to the home.
I like the raw material with the defects very much because it gives the furniture a special character when it get into a new home,
and it is not something plastic or polished, it has some kind of a story that goes with it everywhere it goes