Flip Flop vase on wheels

MATERIAL:
discarded Flip Flos from Africa
SIZE:
L 40 W 40 H 55 cm
YEAR:
2011
EDITION:
one off
Concept

The Flip Flops are telling the story. They are discoloured, worn, torn, patched up and eventually tossed away or lost.After a long trip through Asia or Africa they end up in sewers and in the ocean. Then they are washed up on the shores of Africa. There they are found, collected, and eventually reclaimed. Studio Schneemann turned these into a collection of sustainable design objects in which the eventful travel tales of worn Flip Flops is captured and translated.