One man's ceiling is another man's floor, and increasingly, one industry's cut-offs can become another's profitable product. Tile manufacturer Modwalls takes the waste product--neat little cork "pennies"--that comes from trimming bottle corks down to size, and turns them into 1-foot-square sheets of tile called CorkDotz. It's water-resistant, of course, and reportedly even tough enough to use outdoors.
Fun to see these come to New York, but the miniature set pieces are the best. For those keeners out there who are so inspired, fire up your tilt-shift photography tricks and go to town.
The furniture fair typically hosts a ton of "veneer lighting" (most of it's pretty nice, actually), but LZF's floor-to-ceiling installation at the end of the Spain section was positively exuberant. Most of the pieces are by Luis Eslava Studio (their Agatha hanging lamp is particularly beautiful), and evoke one of...
When it comes to showing off unusual materials, you could do worse than transparent concrete and cement. Both are solid and strong, yet allow light to pass through them, causing a cartoon question mark to pop up over people's heads the first time they see the stuff.At this year's World...
Founded in 2002 by manufacturing designer Max Durney and now gaining traction, Industrial Origami has come up with a strong, simple, brilliant, and relatively inexpensive way to build things: By precision folding sheets of aluminum and steel.As reported by Barbara Taormina in Energy Digital, An Industrial Origami designed product starts...
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