Unusual and unique is how we may describe best the first furnishing items of the Under Pressure collection. Made from the old stocks of LHA, a hydraulic cylinders producer based in Brescia, Italia, each article of this one of a kind collection is composed of one or more stainless steel cylinder heads, rehabilitated to last longer and look better.

Half way between art and design, the collection comes to life through the initiative of Cesare Porretti, the CEO of LHA. Not knowing what to do with hundreds of kilos of steel components, he started a Pitch on BootB to get ideas on how to re-use his old stocks (the image below shows a preview of what the stock used to look like).

Let’s discover what these old rusty pistons heads turned into!

Specialized in designing anything from lamps, toys, tables and benches starting from waste materials, Daniele Coletti (a.k.a DrDax), the founder of Officina delle mille cose, picked up the Brief and submitted his idea on how to re-purpose LHA’s obsolete stock. In a previous blog post we have published the winning idea. We remember some of you had doubts about its feasibility :)

The project has seen serious progress during the last couple of months and the general product line was established. Unique and impossible to replicate, the first collection items - flower pot, table and small storage recipients, are now ready and they represent only the beginning of a collection in continuous expansion.

We find the collection beautiful - what’s your take?

In the end, we leave you with a thought to ponder from Edward De Bono “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.“.