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| Flake textile by Woodnotes |
Materials expert
Chris Lefteri writes for Homebuildlife this week on the subject of 'reimagination'. This new movement sees designers reacting to the economic downturn with a mixture of ingenuity, defiance and optimism about what the future may bring.
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| Ruhrsteine concrete skipping stones by Formfjord |
Lefteri profiles the designers who are reinventing the ways we use traditional materials like wood, leather, plastic and metal - including WGSN favourite, Simon Hasan, who uses boiled leather to achieve startlingly tactile results, and Seongyong Lee, whose RCA graduation project Tubeply is one of the stand-out designs of this year.
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| Boiled leather stool by Simon Hasan |
WGSN, homebuildlife subscribers can read the full report
here.
