Wine bottle chandelier by Chris Weylandt. He designed a tasting rooms at his winery, located outside Cape Town and decided to have a bit of fun with the lighting. Via Sara Ohlgren.
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Waste transformed into Art
Stuart Haygarth has collected waste that is being washed up on parts of Kent coastline. With this waste he has produced several objects. This chandelier is one of them and is mainly made of plastic objects. It’s incredible how much waste there is along the world’s coastlines, and amazing how Stuart managed to do something as beautiful as this chandelier of the ugly garbage. Read more about his work on Wallpaper.
Supersize your eco-conscience
Superfry. Greece is for lovers created a paper recycling bin for Hartovasilion (Translated as Paper Kingdom).
The Ice tree
The impressive ”Ice tree”, made from 300 recycled water bottles. Created by the design firm Paprika. It´s hanging in the window of Montreal´s furniture store Domison throughout the holidays. The light is bouncing around through all the glass bottles, playful and nice reflections.
Not a box
Found this very simple and neat idea through The Dieline. David Graas from the Netherlands created the concept ”Not a box”. A package containing cables, bulb and manual - and voila, after unpacking it – transformed into a lamp. As simple as it can get.
Christmas Tree in a flat package
I´m already looking forward to Christmas. Thinking where I can find a Christmas tree… Buro North made a wooden version packaged flat in recycled paper material. They have even made a Life Cycle Assessment and compared this tree with a traditional pine tree. This wooden one is 80% more environmentally friendly according to their report. it is made with environmentally aware ingredients, they are CNC-routed (low energy production technique). Take small space in the transport. What´s most sustainable with it - you can use it next year again….For me, often travelling over Christmas – this is perfect! It will still be there in good shape when I get back. What I more like with this tree – it´s not trying to imitate a pine tree, it has it´s own characteristics, nicely done!
Blightster
Same theme as Gardener’s pulp lamp below. Rodrigo Alonso from Chile made this Blightster. The lamp incorporates the packaging in the product design and by that reduces waste to a minimum. He uses thermoforming, same technique that is used to produce blister packaging…blister+light=blightster. Ok, using PVC is probably not the best move to promote it as environmental friendly. But it’s a brilliant integration with the product and it reduces handling steps and waste for the consumers.
Paper Pulp Lamp
David Gardener created this lamp. It’s inspired of the paper pulp packaging which the electronic industry is using for transporting components.