Walking the streets of any modern city, you are likely to encounter wasted materials. Materials that – with a little imagination, skill, and love – could be transformed into something beautiful and new. Materials are thankfully being snatched up by design studios all over Tel Aviv in order to recycle and reclaim them. Some of the studios we’ve mentioned in the past are Studio Mesila and Junktion.
We’re happy to add another one to the list – Ubico Studio in south Tel Aviv.
Founded in February 2008 by Ori Ben-Zvi, an industrial designer, Ubico is a combination design studio and small production unit. The studio offers sustainable furniture made from materials sourced entirely from dumpsters, renovation work, and the streets of Tel Aviv.
As the studio describes its focus: “Our focus is on generating high quality design with good craftsmanship made solely of recycled and reclaimed materials.”
Bearing the label “100% recycled”, customers can check out where the materials for various products were sourced from via the studio’s website. There are different labels for industrial waste, urban waste (found in Tel Aviv), and materials from waste disposal centers.
Check out the “Rin Tin” wash basin above, based on a used school desk bought at a flea market and refitted to contain a sink. Or the beautiful “Batinca” gas stove top unit to the left, made of reclaimed beech and plywood (and perfect for tiny apartments).
To get a sense of what a work day at Studio Ubico looks like, check out the photo of their workspace looks like, below.
Read more about reclaimed and recycled design::
Studio Mesila is Paving the Track to Sustainable Design
Tel Aviv’s Junktion Studio Keeps Inspiring Us to Rethink Our Junk
Ten Sustainable Israeli Designers Who Reduce, Reuse & Recycle
[…] (HIT) to challenge young designers to find ways to upcycle used oak wine barrels. Assisted by Ori Ben Zvi of Tel Aviv’s upcycling Studio Ubico, the designers came up with a bunch of creative ways to use the wooden barrels, prototypes of which […]
[…] Studio Ubico, an upcycling and environmentally conscious design studio working in Tel Aviv, joins the ranks of other sustainable designers who are trying to make good use out of materials that are already sourced (instead of going out and taking more materials from the planet). The studio collects and reclaims materials such as wood from workshops and bins near them, finding new uses for materials that others have discarded. We’ve seen other designers do some pretty crazy things with wood (like make wooden eyeglass frames), but we haven’t yet seen as spiritual an approach to wood as we see in Studio Ubico’s new furniture collection – The Wake. […]
[…] Aviv has been fortunate enough to experience a recent influx of sustainable design studios, creating anything from rotary telephone desk lamps to wood veneer light fixtures. These studios […]
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