Imagining recycling, recycling designing, designing the image: Reutilisation as a design strategy

Throughout history, recycling has become a solution for product development on several occasions. Beyond the ecological conscience that has been constituted especially from the 60s until the present time, this practice has served to solve different problems: technical, conceptual or even social. During the 20th century some seating furniture was made in which the recycling of materials and parts of objects has given rise to real design milestones and has helped, without being its main purpose, to create a sustainable image. This article attempts to tell the story of these pieces and their ecological context, to show the operation of reuse as a project strategy and as part of a holistic process that seeks to respond to technical, functional and conceptual issues, beyond the merely ecological.