If you’re anything like me, you’ve ridden a ski lift thousands, maybe tens of thousands of times, never really wondering what happens to chairs when they are replaced by newer, shinier ones.
As it happens, in most cases they end up in a resort’s boneyard. This is precisely what gave Jacques Boiteau and Matt Evans the idea to breathe new life into these objects that hold such sentimental value for so many.
Last year, Boiteau and Evans launched Ski Lift Designs, a Denver-based startup that’s repurposing old chairs, turning them into unique furniture pieces for their customers’ homes.
“It’s an interesting process because no chair is the same,” Boiteau told Business Den. “You hang it up and it’s not centered and not right,” he said.
Ski Lift Designs work with their customers to understand how they’d like to feature the chair in the home and go on to make chairs with legs, hanging chairs, or some that pivot. They retail for between $1,000 to $2,500.
