Launching Wednesday, March 23, up-and-coming Emma Scully Gallery will present a very special show in the name of visionary British designer Jane Atfield in tandem with the 30th anniversary of her revolutionary RCP2 chair – one of the first pieces of design made exclusively from recycled plastics.

Jane Atfield’s pioneering work in sustainability and ecologically conscious design began during her time studying furniture design at the Royal College of Art (RCA). There, she came across a small sample of Missouri-based manufacturers Yemm & Hart’s recycled, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic board sheets. Jane commissioned Yemm & Hart to produce a prototype, shown at her RCA graduation in 1992. After the RCP2 Chair’s successful debut, Atfield founded MADE OF WASTE, where she produced and designed new works from recycled plastic sheets.

This series of re-editioned chairs presented by Emma Scully Gallery and produced in collaboration with Yemm & Hart are in honor of the first RCP2 Chair. Three colors have been manufactured: a replica of Jane and Stephen Yemm’s first multicolored prototype, a blue MADE OF WASTE edition (in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Design Museum London, and the British Crafts Council,) and a new, never before created black and white. Also on view is an original Atfield-designed table, produced for the first time for this exhibition.