When recycling meets design
There is more to recycling than putting bottles, cans and cardboard into proper containers. The following designs prove how creative and interesting recycling can be. Maybe one of these bizarre designs will inspire you to reuse old stuff aroud your box in a new way.
Laurence Brabant is a French designer and producer of glassware. I love her idea to reuse old bottles and turn them into spoons with a wooden handle or drinking glasses with a cork base. She has designed some amazing work, which you can see on her webpage: http://laurence.brabant.free.fr
Stuart Haygarth is a London based designer, turning waste into lighting masterpieces. More eye-catching designs are available on http://stuarthaygarth.com/.
Recycled airplane trolleys? Why not! Bordbar is a company situated in Cologne that specializes on recycling old airplane trolleys. These globetrotters can be customized on the inside and out and are unique in every sense. www.bordbar.de
Here’s a great idea for a DIY ceiling lamp. If you happen to have a number of leftover discarded old fluorescent tubes you might just want to copy this design from Castor.
A bathtub seems to be an unlikely candidate for reuse, but the designers of Reestore proved me wrong!
We spotted this piece of design at the “Wohnen & Interieur 2009″ tradeshow in Vienna. The adaption of a waste container into a chair … wow!
This rocking chair designed by Francois Royer is an outstanding concept for an environmentally friendly chair. For his design the French Designer reused an old oil drum and turned it into an amazing piece of furniture. Check out the Stanker website!
And this is the most impressive example of recycling we could find: a whole house made of old bottles! The Tom Kelly bottle house was built in 1906 in Rhyolite, Nevada, where you can still visit it today.
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