Smashing ceramics and four other finds
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From piles of driftwood to heaps of wool, this month's collection celebrates the designers and makers finding new uses for discarded things.
Image: © Granby Workshop
Smashing ceramics
Liverpool-based Granby Workshop have created Granbyware, a beautiful range of tableware made from 100% recycled materials. Crushed glass, old tiles, factory sludge and other waste destined for landfill is transformed into a colourful collection of mugs, plates and bowls. There’s not a single gram of new material, no binders, no additives. It’s strictly waste and it’s brilliant.
Image: © Kirsty Elson
Getting the drift
Kirsty Elson is an artist who scours her local Cornish beaches collecting flotsam and jetsam left by the tide. Inspired by the shapes and forms of the things she finds, she crafts weird, wonderful and witty one-off sculptures.
Image: © Graypants
Scraplights
Scraplights are a new collection of lights from Graypants. They're laser cut, hand-crafted from recycled cardboard and coated in a non-toxic fire retardant. They come in a range of shapes, sizes and colours and are a great companion to their Wave Panels too.
Image: © Solidwool
Think fibreglass, but with wool
Justin and Hannah Floyd were looking for a use for the coarse wool from hill-farmed, upland sheep. Historically used in the UK carpet industry, demand had declined and the wool was now considered almost worthless. They created Solidwool, a strong, beautiful and unique composite material. Think fibreglass, but with wool.
Image: © Tom Gyr
Ocean plastic pen
Tom’s pens are things of beauty. His aim is to reduce the number of disposable pens that are thrown into landfill each year by creating hand-crafted, versatile pens, built to last a lifetime. As well as his own collection, he’s partnered with Selfridges for their Project Ocean campaign and made a pen from plastic collected on a little beach in Swanage, Dorset.
Studio news
Inspiration — Walala Lounge
Inspiration this month comes from Camille Walala's installation as part of London Design Festival. With her renowned colourful, graphic patterns and bright, bold shapes, she has created a collection of weird and wonderful street furniture for South Molton street in Mayfair.
