The Brothers Dressler found 93 steel-framed school assembly chairs and did what every squirming fourth-grader longs to do: vandalized the hell out of them.

They slapped on new legs and backs and frames and covered the seats in felt and leather scraps. They powder-coated the metal in exuberant red and yellow and white and raised some of the seats off of the ground, transforming the humble school chair into a bar stool.

The designs that result--six of which will be on view at Billy Reid during NoHo Design Week, from May 15 to 18--look nothing like the dreadful stuff we remember from grade school. They're loud, fun, and thoroughly defiant. They're everything classroom furniture isn't supposed to be.

The Brothers Dressler are Jason and Lars, twins (always trouble!) who hail from Toronto. Their work deals mostly in wood, much of it reclaimed, and has that expressly Canadian mix of earnest earthiness ("Wasting material is taboo to us," they write on their Web site) and impishness (one of their benches is mounted on wooden human-foot molds -- salvaged, of course).

But the school chairs might be their most daring venture yet -- the work of two scamps just begging to get sent to the principal's office.

[Images courtesy of Noho Design District]