RESIDUE: SOFT REMAINS
             SARA REGAL

         

3 DAYS OF DESIGN, CPH 
18.06.25 - 19.06.25




Residue: Soft Remains is a new series of modular, collectible seating pieces by Sara Regal, created from layered and fragmented industrial waste collected across Mallorca. What appears at first tone-like geologic in presence: sedimented, immovable, dense, reveals itself  on closer encounter as soft, textured, and shaped for rest.

The project explores the afterlife of discarded materials, reimagining residue not as something leftover, but as a source of potential. Softness emerges not in spite of the material, but because of it. Each piece is both sculptural and functional, shaped through an experimental, constructivist process. Working intuitively with salvaged matter, the forms are built through layering, compression, cutting, and reshaping, letting structure emerge through making. The process is slow, tactile, and responsive to the material’s own qualities.







Seating 05
2025

Collaging the thin offcuts in order to create an overlapping pattern. Builders’s daily small waste became the source material, fragments strictly selected for their unrefined visual qualities. The base is composed of the reclaimed materials from the construction sites: extruded PS panels, expanded PS , underfloor heating expanded PS panels, and wood scraps. PUR glue, putty, projected PUR, water based protective lacquer unify the layered assemblage.


150 x 95 x 80 (30kg)


This approach bridges collectible design and bespoke craftsmanship. These are not prototypes for mass production, but singular,  inhabitable works made to be used, reconfigured, and lived with. In doing so, the project proposes a quieter, more reflective way of making: where waste becomes foundation, and a softness form of resistance.

Residue: Soft Remains marks Sara Regal’s second solo show with VASTO and continues a shared investigation into materiality, reuse, and form. Presented within the refined, sensorial context of Cecilie Bahnsen’s HQ during 3 Days of Design and in collaboration with Art studies, the work enters into dialogue with Bahnsen’s world, where structure meets fragility, and craft speaks in a subtle, physical language.





Seating 06
2025

A merge of both intervening and welcoming the reclaimed materials from construction sites as they come.  The untouched panels of extrude polystyrene of the backrest bury into the restored polystyrene of the base, also composed of wood scraps and foam cardboard. Concrete, putty, PUR glue, projected PUR and water based protective lacquer contribute to the sleek finish of this piece.

265 x 100 x 75 (30kg)
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Residue: Soft Remains marks Sara Regal’s second solo show with VASTO and continues a shared investigation into materiality, reuse, and form. Presented within the refined, sensorial context of Cecilie Bahnsen’s HQ during 3 Days of Design and in collaboration with Art studies, the work enters into dialogue with Bahnsen’s world, where structure meets fragility, and craft speaks in a subtle, physical language.