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Today, a notable dispatch from the superbly designed however prohibitively priced department (if my Yen to U.S. bucks conversion proves to be correct):
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Nendo, Oki Sato's prolific Tokyo-based style firm behind the curious “Bird-Apartment” put in at a nature preserve in Komoro town, has teamed up with Coca-Cola to unharness a stunning/utilitarian assortment of contemporary ware crafted from recycled glass soda bottles.

Dubbed Bottleware, the five-piece assortment — strictly serving bowls and dishes — is hand made by glass blowers within the Aomori Prefecture from one hundred pc recycled Coca-Cola contour bottles. These picture green-tinted (their official color is “Georgia inexperienced,” by the way) food vessels were fabricated in 1916 and though somewhat scarce stateside, square measure still utilized in several countries round the world wherever they’re collected, rinsed, refilled, and reused over and yet again. As for the “degraded” bottles that can’t be reused for his or her original purpose and square measure off from circulation, this can be wherever Bottleware comes in.

Elaborates Nendo:

This ware assortment is created from bottles that have deteriorated over the course of intensive usage, and may now not be used for his or her original purpose. we have a tendency to were captivated by the actual inexperienced tint called Georgia inexperienced, and by the fine air bubbles and distortions that square measure a trademark of recycled glass, therefore determined to make straightforward shapes that will enhance these traits. however we have a tendency to additionally needed users to feel a remnant of the distinctive bottle within the new merchandise.

Our answer was to make bowls and dishes that retain its distinctive lower form, like the highest had been sliced off. The dimpling on the bottle base that additional to mitigate hot impacts throughout the assembly method isn't normally a robust visual feature, however it’s a selected characteristic of glass bottles and visual to anyone United Nations agency picks up the bottle to drink. Keeping these ringed dimples on the bottom of our bowls and plates additionally helps to convey necessary messages regarding the means that cup circulates between individuals as it’s created, used and recycled for more use, and regarding the connections it makes between individuals during this method.


Got it. The Bottleware assortment showed back in early November at styletide Tokio and is presently purchasable at variety of shops together with the japanese outposts of the Conran look and also the MoMa Design Store. They’re additionally on the market through Japan’s official Coca-Cola store. That said, I’m idea Bottleware are going to be a strictly Japan-only affair. However, if you’re curious about investment in recycled glass ware, i like to recommend the less spendy however no less lovely tranSglass line of tumblers, carafes, vases, and also the like from Artecnica that’s created by Guatemalan artisans through a partnership with Aids to Artisans.