Community News: VT student designs award winning chair out of shipping pallet

News release
Published: May 20, 2008

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Ever think of using a shipping pallet around the house? Andrew Montgomery of Falls Church, Va., a fifth-year architecture student in Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design http://www.archdesign.vt.edu did.  He designed a chair with a single shipping pallet and it won the Green Stewardship Award from Design Within Reach, a company that sells fully licensed furniture classics by major designers.

Montgomery chair was on display in April in the Modern + Design + Function exhibition of innovative furniture by emerging designers in Design Within Reach studios in Washington, D.C.

Montgomery said, “Once a pallet is used and discarded, no one usually looks past its original purpose to ship goods. But underneath all the mistreatment during its initial use, there is beauty.”

The College of Architecture and Urban Studies http://www.caus.vt.edu is composed of four schools: the School of Architecture + Design, including architecture, industrial design, interior design and landscape architecture; the School of Public and International Affairs, including urban affairs and planning, public administration and policy and government and international affairs; the Myers-Lawson School of Construction, which includes building construction in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and construction engineering management in the College of Engineering; and the School of the Visual Arts, including programs in studio art, visual communication and art history.