Purpose Restoration
Jason Fox owns Purpose Restoration, a furniture design company that not only saves old pieces from going to the landfill, but makes them into one-of-a-kind modern treasures. He also creates custom pieces featuring his own artwork, which is inspired by graffiti and Japanese tattoo art.
An ugly TV stand is transformed into a kitchen cart — I wouldn’t have thought of that!
A client commission, this desk incorporates some of the client’s favorite sayings.
This piece was a boring, box-store dresser, but Jason created it into an urban graffiti-inspired painting.
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These are awesome.
As a teacher, I would love to have one of those desks with literary quotes painted on it. Awesome!
Anne, I cant believe as a teacher you would describe this as awesome. I think that two words which need to be removed from the english language are awesome and nice. Try it..
you are a bitch eggnos. stick to comments related to the web page i.e. the artist. Maybe she doesn’t teach English. Maybe you should try to mind your own p’s and q’s. IF you are that concerned about other’s posts concerning the English language then “English” should be in caps and “awesome” and “nice” should be underlined.
AWESOME AWESOME NICE NICE
Man, eggnostriva sucks the ass.
And except for the first one, witch i think is better unmodified, they are all nice.
THESE ARE SO AWESOMELY NICE
I love words and often aspire to speak and write eloquently and with appropriate erudition; however, a teacher can use slang too. Words have not just denotation, but connotation, and “awesome” has a very specific connotation, culturally.
I think egghead sucks..and rachel rocks!!
The teacher can say whatever she wants
I think all teachers should encourage their students to use descriptive language. In all fairness, we are on a website commenting on teaching techniques rather than the desks that are on display.
Interesting! I do not find some of them appropriate for the classrom but they are interesting.
What I was trying to say,(clumsily I will admit).Is when you take those two words out of your vocabulary, wonderful fresh descriptive words rush in to fill the vacuum. Now, things are nice or awesome. I doubt there has ever been an awsome piece of furniture. Think of what the words are meant to mean, because if you blow awesome on furniture, what is left when a thing actually fills you with awe. And nice just means you cant be assed to make a better assesment of something.
Haha, I didn’t realize everyone reacted the same way to your negativity
she was saying that his artwork is awesome, not the piece of furniture you snooty c word
awesome does NOT mean awe-inspiring
it may have at once point but it no longer does
it’s already lost its impact in that sense
@Eggnostriva – You’ve obviously never been to the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, a mecca of AWESOME furnishings!
Nice Designs! I like the grunge one.
Wow this furniture is so awesome, it really does fill me with awe. Nice job to the artist who did this.
love love love.
1,3,4 Good. 2 No no no.
Several of the designs aren’t to my taste but I think the beauty of each is that it has been reborn with a new design or purpose. For instance, I didn’t read the description under #2 until ArrGee commented on it. I looked again and was a bit appalled at the knives, then I read the description and, although I wouldn’t want it in my kitchen, it made sense and the new purpose for this piece is brilliant.
That kitchen cart isn’t the TV stand. The panel construction for each are entirely different.
Other than that… great idea. Makes things a little more personal.
Yeah the TV stand isn’t the kitchen cart, it’s not the same size or height. I suppose they could have covered up the shelf, the door panel could be changed out and the lock moved to a different spot and the bottom cut out trim filled in and then have height added but it seems reeeeaally unlikely. Eh, nope, nope. The more I look at the more I see parts that are just the wrong proportions to be the same.
The designs are good but they shouldn’t tote something as being converted from something else if it isn’t.
Very creative..
I agree with Ann… the desk is absolutely AWESOME.
Kudos
Eggo: Your lame attempt to appear intellectual merely constitutes evidence of your heightened level of pedantry! Whoa…go get a dictionary!!! Awesome! try being nice to others, especially NICE teachers!
these suck balls. except the t.v stand turned into kitchen thing, that one is fucking awesome. if they were all like that it would be cool but the rest of them the original piece of furniture looks better than the painted version. wood > paint anyday when it comes to furniture.
Amazing! I really like the desk.
i agree with a few of you on here, these are stunning pieces of furniture, I love the designs, this is touching on world class art – great stuff keep it up,
Mr Plumber Rochdale
I second cnote. the only one I like is the kitchen thing (whether they are both the same piece or not) The rest should have remained as is. Try making them more interesting, not be painting them with ugly sh!t but by mixing the pieces with other interesting furniture, objects and colors around them.
what u call a ulgy tv stand is actually once a very popular ice box styled tv stand in solid oak,although u can’t tell what wood it is now,i know because i used to sell them,and even own one myself,it’s a shame good furniture is now regarded as ulgy
Great ideas!!
Eggnostriva:
That’s only because no one has ever told you that you are either of those things. Get over yourself.
I’d love a computer desk like that! I wonder how much it costs to transform my boring old desk into a piece of modern art.