Sex+Design Magazine

Recycled Gym Floors Make Their Bedroom Debut

By Ike Edeani

You thought you’d left the sweat-stained, shoe-marked floorboards of your high school gym long behind, eh? Not today. In an effort to recapture nostalgia, designer Søren Rose has introduced the Gymnasium Collection, a limited edition series of cabinets made from recycled gym floorboards, allowing your “kissing under the bleachers” memories to make an everyday appearance.

The current collection is being mass-produced, and merely borrows the graphic lines and simple silhouettes of the court. The cabinets are made using sustainable, eco-friendly materials like renewable pine and controlled Danish oak with water-based fixatives and varnishes.

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