Byproduct as geology: Issey Miyake x Ensamble Studio’s Paper Log
Issey Miyake’s Paper Log exhibition turned its pleated waste into furniture and sculptures, in collaboration with Ensamble Studio.
Objects
Rugs woven with silk, wool, hemp and allo
A collaboration between Marc Phillips Rugs and architect Jamie Bush, Field Studies translates aerial paintings of crop fields into rugs layered from silk, wool, hemp and allo – a wild Himalayan nettle.
These lights couple offcuts with bacterial cellulose for an ethereal beauty
Designed by Ferma Studio and ReCraft Design Studio – these light pair a reclaimed concrete core sample with a lampshade of bacterial cellulose, grown through kombucha fermentation until it turns soft and semi-translucent.
Studio TOOJ’s DUK collection melds mycelium innovation with surrealist form
Studio TOOJ’s DUK collection quietly disrupts the boundaries between form, function and materiality. Conceived as an exploration of illusion and tactility, the made-to-order series presents sculptural pieces that appear to be soft cloth draped in space – yet on closer inspection, each one reveals itself as a precisely carved, immovable form.
Big Glow by Studio Truly Truly redefines lighting with a bio-composite wool
Studio Truly Truly’s latest lighting design for Rakumba, Big Glow is a bold material experiment fusing innovation and sustainability.
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