1oo Chairs in 1oo Days Date 2006-20o7 Designer Martino Gamper Part design project and part performance, oo Chairs in 1oo Doys is a furniture collection by London-based designer Martino Gamper that was made by reassembling found and unwanted objects into new pieces. As the name of the project suggests, Gamper set himself the challenge of making a chair a day for one hundred days, collecting his raw materials from a variety of sources, including scavenging from dumpsters and dumps and asking his friends to give him their unwanted items of furniture. Returning to his workshop each day, Gamper would take apart his finds-which consisted largely of discarded chairs but also other objects including guitars, baskets, and bicycle seats and reassemble them into new chairs. The result is a series of one hundred completely different designs, some of which are bizarre hybrids between two different types of chairs and some of which are more akin to abstract sculptures. The loo Choirs in 1oo Days project was intended as a way of exploring new ways of designing Gamper was faced with a haphazard kit of ports from which he had to select components, a at and the making process involved much trial and error. Gamper himself describes the process as "sketching in 3-D'' and the speed e at which he had to work meant the project was as much an exercise g in handcrafting as o kind of production line for nonidentical objects The resulting chairs, which were sold to a Milanese gallery at the end of the project, are highly evocative, giving strong suggestions of their former lives. In 20o7 Gamper carried out another related project called if only Gio Knew, which also involved the refashioning of existing furniture. is This time, instead of using unwanted objects, Gamper was given h original interior sets and furniture from the Hotel Parco dei Principi of in Sorrento, Italy, designed by legendary Italian architect Gio Pontiin 1962. In an act of design iconoclasm, Gamper took these icons, cut them up, and refashioned them in new pieces, proving that it is not only junk furniture that can be recycled into new objects