Upfront Sungai Design is a new sustainable design company creating highquality, unique products from plastic waste collected from Bali's river systems by their sister non-profit, Sungai Watch. To date, Sungai Watch has installed 270 floating barriers throughout Indonesia's rivers and has collected over 1.8 tonnes of plastic, with daily collection now averaging over 3000 kilograms of plastic. Sungai Design recently launched their first product; the Ombak (wave in Indonesian) chair, available in “Seater” and “Lounger” variations and a range of colours. Each Ombak chair is subtly different, made from a unique combination of 2000 upcycled plastic bags, extensively cleaned, and then shredded and heat-pressed into hard, durable sheets. Then, using CNC technology, those sheets are intricately sculpted into a series of parametric panels that make up the backbone of the…
