Inger Steinnes - Lines
A young Norwegian designer uses discarded materials to create beautiful and sustainable products, from chairs to pots.
Product designer Inger Steinnes knows what it means to be eco-friendly and tasteful at the same time. Similar to some of her contemporaries' projects, like Daniel McLaughlin's Terracase, the young Norwegian has created a range of products that are both pleasing to the eye but also use unusual, sustainable, waste materials: all designs have been built with recycled material. Take Steinnes' Lines chair, for instance: 90% is made from waste. The designer used damaged leather discarded from a leather factory in Flekkefjord to make the body with the chair's wood made from offcuts from a window factory in Moi.
A previously, equally great project from Steinnes is her Brew Series: reminiscent of Jeongwon Ji's Crustic – a bioplastic derived from the crushed remains of mitten crab shells – the Brew series are beautifully designed pots that "aim to show us how something we regard as waste actually can become something valuable." All pieces are made out of a new material called Strinnes calls Brewplaster, made by mixing used coffee ground with plaster and colour to create new effects and properties.
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