Last week I watched The Green on the Sundance Channel for the first time even that the series is already in its second season. I was really impressed by the Brooklyn based designer Daniel Michalik in the episode big ideas for a small planet.
He’s a self-proclaimed ‘cork dork’ and transforms leftovers from the wine stopper industry into beautiful furniture that’s renewable, recyclable and waterproof like his Cortiça Chaise Lounge. I didn’t know until this show that a wine stopper is simply a little piece of tree bark which will grow back eventually.
During the episode it was fun to watch the designer unwrap his first mass manufactured cork bowl out of a cardboard box at Amorim Industrial Solutions, which helped him to develop his cork bowls in a responsible way. It’s great to see how eco-chic design is able to go mass which means more people will have access to it.
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