Folded layers of recycled carpet make a bench that feels more like a flexible seating landscape than furniture.

Carpet Bench designed by PolyU students: Ranger Hui, Ray Cheung, Ivy Tai, and Josie Wong.

Unique design challenges the idea that benches must face one way or enforce a single posture.

Sourced from surplus carpets, the material was rescued from landfill and reimagined into a functional object with attitude.

Folds create structure, rhythm, and strength without hard frames. What looks soft is actually carefully engineered through compression and layering.

Nothing is hidden, refined away, or disguised. Material’s past life is obvious, and that honesty gives the carpet bench character.

Carpet Bench does not tell people how to use it. It trusts the user. That trust is rare in public furniture.

The Carpet Bench allows leaning, turning, clustering, or sitting back-to-back, making conversation less formal and more human.

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