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recycled beauties

13/02/2008 DesignFlute 1 Comment

Designer-Craftisans:@ Kunye African Trends

Do you think these products are beautiful!?

Then let me tell you these are made from ughs…waste plastic – recycled plastic!

kunye kube

And I think these are one of the most beautiful recycled plastic products I have ever seen!

computer bag

These are not just fun and funky products, these are functional too.

How else I would say the bed cover, plastic rugs for swimming pool, computer bag and screens; some real recycled innovation!!

container

These handmade products are from Kunye – brilliant brainchild of Alison Coutras (and her local team of craftisans – a cooperative to combat unemployment) in South Africa.

Kunye is the Xhosa word for ‘forward together’.

Kunye has won a number of awards.

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indian designers

scintillating covers

11/02/2008 DesignFlute 5 Comments

velvet with felt appliqué

Designers: David Abraham + Rakesh Thakore + Kevin Nigli

@ Abraham & Thakore

cocoa wool crepe cushion cover with embroidered hand

Pieces that decorate museums. Pieces with a strong respect for material, form and craft.

These cushion covers are from India’s well respected name for fashion, accessories and home textile products – Abraham & Thakore.

wool and velvet with hand embroidery

The work of Abraham & Thakore has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, in a British Council exhibition on contemporary Indian design; at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi, in the Volkart Foundation sponsored exhibition on Khadi that later traveled to Switzerland etc.