Furniture made from recycled road signs

Working with scrap aluminium traffic signs Boris Bally repurposes an otherwise discarded material and transforms it into unusual, edgy and urban furniture. Bally has a background in jewellery making and grew up in an environment where recycling was somewhat of a family tradition. His so-called ‘aha moment’ came in 1991 whilst making the shell form for a fireplace from an old road sign. Whilst hammering two pieces of sign together with rivets Bally became aware of how urban, green and naughty it was to be beating up and repurposing such an authoritarian object. It was this that inspired him to blur the boundaries of art, craft and design in making his furniture collection, which he emphasizes is made from legally purchased signage. The furniture is completely hand-made or as Bally calls it ‘humanufactured’.