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