Monday, March 31, 2014

New stuff on my wishlist

March is the perfect month for spring news. These four pieces are more than nice:


Balmain Zoe Karssen Junya Watanabe Michael Kors 

Upcycling is the new recycling

Upcycling has captured the zeitgeist, with a growing vanguard of designers taking old – and often unwanted – objects and transforming them into imaginative, covetable collectibles.

Upcycling for most of us is a pretty new concept. Recycling we know all about. It’s what our foremothers did when they stitched patchwork quilts out of old bits of fabric; it’s what all poor societies do from necessity when they refashion every bit of wood and metal because they can’t afford to buy anything new. Upcycling is more ambitious. It takes old (and often unwanted) items and turns them into something more than merely functional objects – it transforms them into things of great beauty, thus perfectly resolving the tension between our desire for new, lovely things and our concern about consuming more of the world’s diminishing resources. It offers luxury for our new eco-conscious times. Creativity gone wild. Have a look down below. Like it?

Find more awesome and unique things at

www.robertomora.it
www.bokjadesign.com
www.boukedevries.com
www.maartenbaas.com  
www.mintshop.co.uk
www.johnnyswing.com