MEA

Cheap furniture with poor quality is in vogue. Thus, 10.5 million tons of furniture in Europe end up trashed every year. But our forests are suffering from our consumption behaviour and climate change. Even, renewable materials like wood are finite if we consume them faster than they can grow back.

MEA is a concept idea that stands for reparability. It questions our consumption behaviour and the handling of renewable resources in the furniture industry. MEA-Chair is an example that corresponds to this idea.

MEA-Chair is made entirely of solid wood and is therefore easy to repair. Due to detachable screw connections, it can be quickly disassembled and completely refurbished within less than 60 minutes. Irreparable individual parts can be replaced while all others stay in use.

Replacing individual parts has in conclusion that the chair’s appearance changes over the years. Every tree trunk looks different and due to climatic changes, we do not know which tree species will settle in the future. 

When the chair is no longer needed, it can simply be returned. It will be repaired and sold again. This time for less money, as hardly any new resources are used. 

MEA makes repairability accessible to a wider audience and therefore allows furniture to remain in an endless cycle, hardly using any new resources.

After the first repair, MEA‘s life has just begun!