Jim Nature’s roughly rectangular television housing is made of sawdust glued together with adhesive. The plastic parts of the device were painted by the manufacturer with water-soluble gray-green paint. The sections of the housing are screwed together so they can be taken apart again and recycled. Philippe Starck’s striking ecological design became very influential on other designers, especially in the 1990s. However, it wasn’t just for ecological reasons that Philippe Starck used sawdust, normally considered a waste product. He also found the material’s design prospects intriguing, as he himself explained: “Having been annoyed for so long by the dreary gray and black plastic housing used for televisions, I was finally able to demonstrate that there are definitely alternatives. I took a material I was familiar with and made an exterior out of sawdust glued together and molded. Jim Nature was born. And because this television was so different, it became a bestseller.”