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Atelier Tobia Zambotti Repurposes Face Masks for COUCH-19 April 21, 2021 The designer atop his creation. Photography by Raffaele Merler. Single-use face masks and majestic icebergs don’t seem to have anything in common. But COUCH-19 by Atelier Tobia Zambotti makes an inspired connection between the two. The piece comprises four modular units that can be configured as a sofa, chaise longue, or other seating arrangement. Flexibility is not its most striking characteristic, however. Thanks to its materials and colors crystal-clear PVC upholstery stuffed with pale-blue and white face masks the couch evokes a jagged, frozen Arctic sea­scape. “Icebergs are symbols of global warming,” notes the Iceland–based studio’s founder Tobia Zambotti, who had environmental issues firmly in mind when conceiving COUCH-19. Discarded masks, which can’t be recycled in conventional facilities, littered Pergine Valsugana, his northern Italian hometown and shelter-in-place base during part of

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