WASARA, made out of bamboo and bagasse
WASARA was born from a desire to design tableware that perfectly complements the dishes you serve and creates a heartwarming and comfortable setting, even though it can only be used once.
WASARA was born from a desire to design tableware that perfectly complements the dishes you serve and creates a heartwarming and comfortable setting, even though it can only be used once.
Soba reinterprets the traditional bamboo bench, an object still used in lots of places in Japan and which became such an almost invisible object, by adding a twist in its construction to allow it to be easily assembled.
For this lamp collection, Rui Pereira & Ryosuke Fukusada focus was on mixing both traditional and industrial techniques. They wanted to create a unique combination of shadows and colours by using materials from different sources.
Lanzavecchia + Wai collaborates with Singapore’s last remaining Lion Dance mask craftsman, resulting in Leone Lights which are a series of lamps that bring the artistry of this rare South-East Asian trade into the domestic space.
John makes canvas and bamboo bags. His creative process defines the objects he creates. With a craftsman’s respect for his materials, John returns to the essentials of design with his beautifully handmade bamboo and canvas bags.
Bamboo is both beautiful – inspiring art and poetry for thousands of years – and the most utilitarian of plants. From birdcages to buildings we’ve founds countless ways to fashion this plant into the things we need. Now a studio in San Francisco and Brooklyn is turning bamboo into bicycles.
In this case, the project highlights the craft of Japanese creative Chifuyu Enomoto. It shows the skills of Chifuyu as he puts together a bamboo basket by hand, over the eight minutes we’re taken through the entire process in almost real time with lots of traditional techniques on show.
