The Amazing CanTab Chair

You know all those pull tabs from soda cans that most normal people throw away? A friend of mine, Brad, collects them for his amazing art. And he gets his friends to collect them too. He wants thousands of them so he can make artwork like his Amazing CanTab Chair pictured below.

The silvery portion of this chaise lounge chair is made out of interwoven Can Tabs. Over 40,000 of them. Here is the closeup of what the weave looks like.

He has lots of pictures of the build and design process for this piece of art on the MySpace page. And his chair is for sale too. According to his site on MySpace here:

The frame was constructed of two pieces of ¾” plywood on each side, held together with 3/8” all thread steel rod. The seating surface is made of aluminum can tabs, 40,000+ of them, strung onto 1/16” galvanized steel cable. It took me about 3 years to design, collect tabs, and build the chair. The chair is for sale, but I have no idea how much. I am very interested in displaying it in galleries, museums, etc.

The chair is currently on display at Artomatic, an artist’s festival and gallery running now in Washington DC. Check out details for the show here.