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| Vertical Coat + Accessory Storage is Functional Modern Art Posted: 29 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST There aren’t many coat/hat/handbag storage solutions that could be called artistic or even attractive, but this one is both. The wall-mounted storage solution called LINE was designed by Apartment 8 for home interiors firm Schönbuch. As its name suggests, LINE is a collection of vertical bars meant to hold the things that you would otherwise just drop on the floor when you get home. When not in use, they look a lot like modern wall art. At the top of each bar, a small fold-down arm gives you a place to hang your coat or dry cleaning. Three pegs line the lower section or the bars, providing handy resting places for hats and handbags. The slimline design is far less intrusive in any setting than a traditional coat rack or even hooks on the wall. LINE comes in 27 matte colors and 17 high-gloss colors, so they can fit into and enhance any home with their modern art-like appeal. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
| Mobile Foundry Gives Recyclers a Creative Income Stream Posted: 28 Jan 2014 02:00 PM PST In São Paulo, the vast majority of recycling is done by individuals called catadores. They collect discarded drink cans in their carts to recycle for money to help support themselves. London-based Studio Swine took to the streets to create a project that would help catadores get much more money for their work. The duo behind Studio Swine made an improvised mobile foundry to smelt the aluminum from the cans. They then pressed locally-found objects into sand found at a nearby construction site to make molds. After pouring the liquid aluminum into the molds, the team had created interestingly-shaped stool seats. Each stool requires around 60 cans to produce. This may sound like a lot, but a catadore can collect thousands of cans in one workday. Coletivo Amor de Madre commissioned the project and arranged for the designers and catadores to work together, scouring the city for interesting materials and building their one-of-a-kind stools. The designers and the catadores alike learned to see the city in a new way – rather than looking around and seeing garbage, they began to see interesting materials and opportunities to use them. Thanks to this half art/half vocational training project, the can collectors of São Paulo now have a new way to earn an income. The mobile foundry was gifted to the catadores with the intention that it be shared between them. The can collectors have a wide array of objects that they can make with the melted aluminum, taking ephemeral street objects and turning them into a kind of snapshot of the city. ... |
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