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INTERVIEW: We Talk to Architect Charles Newman About 15,000 Bottle Caps for Africa

INTERVIEW: We Talk to Architect Charles Newman About 15,000 Bottle Caps for Africa

What started as the 15,000 Bottle Caps for Africa concept just a few months ago is now an actual built computer learning center and library thanks to architect Charles Newman and the

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The TRIS Is a Stylish Chair Made from Recycled Roller Blinds

The TRIS Is a Stylish Chair Made from Recycled Roller Blinds

Tenenbaum Hazan have come up with a way to take hard plastic roller blinds that have come to the end of their useful lives, and turn them into something new – a chair. The stylish TRIS seat is made

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Quirky Necklaces Made From Buttons Found on the Factory Floor

Quirky Necklaces Made From Buttons Found on the Factory Floor

Following three of Inhabitat’s favorite principles – recycle, re-use, revive – Maria McCormick reinvents the artisan element of jewellery design with these beautiful strings of button

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Colorful Indonesian Clinic and Library Made from Shipping Containers

Colorful Indonesian Clinic and Library Made from Shipping Containers

Shipping containers are sturdy, versatile structures that have traveled the world over the course of their lifespans. The Contertainer is a poly-clinic and public library designed by Indonesian firm,

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Oddbirds: Unique Lamps Made From Lost and Found Tableware

Oddbirds: Unique Lamps Made From Lost and Found Tableware

Swedish design collective Oddbirds has produced a beautiful range of interior objects, accessories and textiles by creatively combining old, new and recycled materials. This series of unique lamps is made

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Castle Made From 50,000 Milk Cartons Breaks World Record

Castle Made From 50,000 Milk Cartons Breaks World Record

This massive milk carton castle has been crowned the largest sculpture made from recycled materials by the folks at the Guinness Book of Records. Spain has had a busy summer, as the project on the grounds

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Brilliant Boxel Pavilion is Built From 2,000 Beer Boxes

Brilliant Boxel Pavilion is Built From 2,000 Beer Boxes

Students from the University of Applied Sciences in Detmold, Germany recently developed and built this extraordinary Boxel pavilion out of 2,000 beer crates. The pavilion is part of a course on how to

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Pavilion Upcycled from 200 Obsolete Speedo Swimsuits

Pavilion Upcycled from 200 Obsolete Speedo Swimsuits

Those tight little swim shorts may actually have a use for more than just aerodynamics in the water. A group of undergraduate students from the Chelsea College of Art & Design took 200 unusable Speedo

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Ugly Kitty Turns Magazine Inserts into Organization

Ugly Kitty Turns Magazine Inserts into Organization

Flipping through new magazines today can feel like shaking the colorful branches of a glossy tree, with leaves falling out from between its limbs. Only they’re falling into your lap, and sometimes 6

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ONCE A DOOR Recycled Door Chair by Claire Danthois

ONCE A DOOR Recycled Door Chair by Claire Danthois

Claire Danthois wowed us with her chair made from a recycled door at the [re]design stand at 100% Design this year- her Once A Door chair turns a reclaimed door into sculptural chaise that is as

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SPECTACLE CHANDELIER Made From Recycled Eye-Glasses

SPECTACLE CHANDELIER Made From Recycled Eye-Glasses

Salvage pioneer Stuart Haygarth has created an eye-catching eyeglass masterpiece, turning discarded glasses into a gorgeously green glowing chandelier. Spectacle is an optical chandelier assembled from

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Stuart Haygarth’s Recycled Lighting Design

Stuart Haygarth’s Recycled Lighting Design

Stuart Haygarth’s talent lies in re-imagining waste into striking lighting design. As a London based designer, his work falls into an increasingly present design movement that is part salvage, part

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TRASH LUXE: Reclaim, Rework, Reuse

TRASH LUXE: Reclaim, Rework, Reuse

Trash Luxe, an exhibition for the London Design Festival at Liberty’s, celebrates the creativity of reworking/remastering unwanted goods into desirable products. With the concept of luxury being

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