Hello, Gorgeous

February, 2009

Ryan Frank's Inkuku chair ($3,100. ryanfrank.net) may look like a nouveau cream puff, but it's decidedly secondhand. The padding that swells from every surface is made of plastic shopping bags that toted eggs, milk and bananas into hundreds of homes be­fore being pressed into service to cushion your behind. Add the recycled-aluminum frame and you have a chair that has been around the block even when it's fresh out of the box.