Neighbor makes furniture from old basketball floor (Antwerp)
Buurman markets a line of homemade furniture made from wood from an old basketball floor. That floor comes from the basketball hall of the Cortina neighborhood center in 2060. Buurman was conceived a year ago as a workshop for recycled wood.
Rebecca Van Remoortere
Buurman, located in the Kalverstraat in the Damwijk, has been around for one year. Buurman was founded as a workshop to give wood a second life. To celebrate the first anniversary, Buurman is now introducing a line of furniture made from recycled materials.
Buurman now sells stools made from the former basketball floor of the Cortina neighborhood center. The floor had to be removed due to moisture damage, but Buurman was still able to repurpose part of the floor. Information boards from the Congoville exhibition in the Middelheim Museum were also used for the stool. The connections and reinforcements and part of the screws are also recycled material. The stool costs 95 euros.
A table is also being sold, including from the basketball floor and materials left over from the Academy of Art. The table costs 950 euros.
“We work together with the social customization company KUNNIG for the milling and sawing work and Paradise Constructions did the welding. In Buurman’s workshop we assembled everything until this beautiful. It couldn’t be more local. The recycled material also comes from Antwerp City,” says Buurman.