Call it Survivor: Designer’s Edition or Project Eco-Design, but we’ve got one reality TV inspired challenge for you: What could you build with just some cotton rope and a pile of wood blocks? An impossible task you say? Well, designer Amy Hunting has got you beat. In an experiment to construct a low-impact, limited material product, Hunting scavenged a local lumber importer’s garbage bin and created Blockshelf, a Jenga-like creation of over 20 varieties of untreated waste wood blocks, simply stacked and secured with a traditional fishing knot.
Bookshelf Built Simply from Waste Wood Blocks and Rope
by Diane Pham, 05/14/10
filed under: DIY, green furniture, Green Home 101, Green Home decor, green Interiors, Green Materials, Green Products, Recycled Materials
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wow.. this is impressive