{"id":431650,"date":"2025-10-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=431650"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:22:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:22:48","slug":"pepe-heykoop-skin-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/pepe-heykoop-skin-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepe Heykoop Upcycled Leather to Make This Creepily Cool Skin Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/armchairs\/office-chair-skin-collection-pepe-heykoop\/id-f_8296073\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepeHeykoop-950x627.jpeg\" alt=\"Pepe Heykoop Skin Collection office chair, 2011\" class=\"wp-image-431898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepeHeykoop-950x627.jpeg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepeHeykoop-531x350.jpeg 531w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepeHeykoop-120x79.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepeHeykoop-768x507.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepeHeykoop-365x241.jpeg 365w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PepeHeykoop.jpeg 1199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/armchairs\/office-chair-skin-collection-pepe-heykoop\/id-f_8296073\/\">Pepe Heykoop Skin Collection office chair, 2011<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pepe Heykoop\u2019s delightfully quirky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/armchairs\/office-chair-skin-collection-pepe-heykoop\/id-f_8296073\/\">office chair<\/a> would be right at home in a Tim Burton movie. It has the shape of a standard-issue desk chair, but it\u2019s missing an arm and is upholstered in a collection of leather scraps that have been Frankensteined together. If the resulting silhouette is more eek! than chic, that\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The humble office chair, instantly recognizable for its ubiquity rather than its aesthetic value, is a symbol of mass-produced, often cheaply made furniture that eventually ends up in landfills. \u201cWe live in a world where clothes and furniture and many more things are consumed like fast food,\u201d the Dutch designer tells <em>The Study<\/em>. \u201cMany of the products we have nowadays are hard to repair and of poor quality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heykoop\u2019s displeasure with furniture&#8217;s disposability has led him to scour the streets for broken and abandoned items, seeking to salvage and repair what he can. \u201cAs I was reconstructing found furniture frames from the street, it felt like redoing the skeleton,\u201d Heykoop says. \u201cIt needed a skin afterwards.\u201d To create one, he started collecting leather scraps \u2014 and was shocked by how much material is wasted in manufacturing items like leather sofas and bags. He pieced and glued these together and used them to cover his rebuilt pieces. The result was the Skin Collection, which Heykoop launched in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are living in a time where the production of objects has exceeded the practical need for them, and many designers are mining waste streams and ready-made forms as raw material for new designs,\u201d says Jude Hughes, a contemporary-design specialist at 1stDibs. \u201cThe fact that Heykoop is directly addressing these concepts with an object that is somewhere between silly or repulsive and adorably imperfect conceals the seriousness of the concepts he is addressing with a disarming humor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/armchairs\/office-chair-skin-collection-pepe-heykoop\/id-f_8296073\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pepe_Heykoop_portrait_photo_by_Annemarijne_Bax_master-copy-632x950.jpg\" alt=\"Pepe Heykoop in skin office chair\" class=\"wp-image-431901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pepe_Heykoop_portrait_photo_by_Annemarijne_Bax_master-copy-632x950.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pepe_Heykoop_portrait_photo_by_Annemarijne_Bax_master-copy-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pepe_Heykoop_portrait_photo_by_Annemarijne_Bax_master-copy-80x120.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pepe_Heykoop_portrait_photo_by_Annemarijne_Bax_master-copy-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pepe_Heykoop_portrait_photo_by_Annemarijne_Bax_master-copy-621x933.jpg 621w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pepe_Heykoop_portrait_photo_by_Annemarijne_Bax_master-copy.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pepe Heykoop, sitting in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/armchairs\/office-chair-skin-collection-pepe-heykoop\/id-f_8296073\/\">Skin Collection office chair<\/a>, creates one-of-a-kind pieces using salvaged furniture parts and leather scraps. Portrait by Annemarijne Bax<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This particular piece, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/armchairs\/office-chair-skin-collection-pepe-heykoop\/id-f_8296073\/\">Heykoop offers on 1stDibs<\/a>, evolved from a desk chair he found with a broken arm. He took it back to his studio to repair it but decided he liked it as it was and covered it in a patchwork of leather offcuts. \u201cJust a quirky chair with one armrest it became,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The impetus behind the Skin Collection was to transform found objects, so each of the items in it is one of a kind. Among them are a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/mirrors\/floor-mirrors-full-length-mirrors\/standing-skin-mirror-pepe-heykoop\/id-f_8296003\/\">large standing mirrror<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/lighting\/floor-lamps\/lamp-skin-collection-pepe-heykoop\/id-f_8296533\/\">floor lamp<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/lighting\/table-lamps\/toy-lamp-skin-collection-pepe-heykoop\/id-f_8296083\/\">light made from a children&#8217;s ride-on toy<\/a> that could absolutely inspire a character in an animated film. Heykoop also does custom commissions and completed one for an artist friend, who made him a portrait in exchange for a rocking chair covered in earthy shades of red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heykoop wants his Skin Collection to inspire people. Although he has saved furniture and leather offcuts from ending up in a landfill, more needs to be done, by all of us. \u201cLet\u2019s be honest &#8230; we consume too much, and therefore we throw away too much,\u201d he says, adding, \u201cWe should become aware of our deeds and their consequences. 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