My lovely friend Nicole send me a link to artist Ryan Frank's web site and what a design^sprout find! His Inkuku chair is made entirely from old (hazard to the planet!) plastic shopping bags. The inspiration: a South African chicken ornament! I love when traditional local craft inspires the minds of our modern artists to be more green and utilize resources that would otherwise end up in a landfill. And if you can't afford the genius of Ryan Frank (I can't!) the chicken is pretty reasonable.
He also produces these cabinets which I think are pretty ingenious - leaving recycled white boards on the street of London for days, he then takes them, for better or worse, and creatively turns them into these funky cabinets.
Wow, nice idea of recycling old things. Really funky.
Posted by: garage storage ideas | March 02, 2009 at 07:02 AM