Gerardo Osio weaves chair into weeping willow tree on the Dommel river
Designer Gerardo Osio has woven the living branches of a weeping willow tree together to form a living seat along the Dommel river in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Osio developed the project, called Weeping Seat, as a student on the GEO-Design Master s course at Design Academy Eindhoven.
Weeping Seat is a swing woven into a willow tree
Weeping Seat explores ideas of how design can be improved and used in order to form a closer and more responsible relationship with nature.
Osio embarked on the project under the guidance of design duo Formafantasma and Lenneke Langenhuijsen, co-founder of Dutch studio Buro Belén.
Mexican designer Gerardo Osio has created Raíz Noreste, a collection of objects including concrete sandals that combine traditional and modern materials to make a statement about the history of northeast Mexico.
Named Raíz Noreste, which translates as northeast root, the series of designs investigates the native past of what is now considered to be the most Americanised part of the country.
Raíz Noreste is a collection of objects made from traditional and modern materials
Each individual piece in the collection is a reinterpretation of a traditional object, remade to reflect how northeast Mexico transformed from a region populated by native hunter-gatherers to an industrial hub.