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Design for a living world : Life cycle of the materials
Design for a living world
Life cycle of the materials
Ellen Lupton + Abbott Miller, May 25, 2009
Stephen Burks_a prototype he created made from raspberry jamwood, a tree native to southwestern Australia. Photo: Mackenzie Stroh
Stephen Burks_a prototype he created made from raspberry jamwood, a tree native to southwestern Australia. Photo: Mackenzie Stroh
 
The "Design for a living world" exhibition at New York’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum focuses designers’ attention on the choice of sustainable natural materials. Nature Conservancy, an organisation for the protection of land and water all over the world, asked 10 designers to create objects from natural resources to reveal the life cycle of the materials used. The result is an ecological collection whose origins are certified by the territorial surveillance of the Nature Conservancy, now on display at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York in the exhibition "Design for a living world".

Stephen Burks_complementary suite of jamwood containers to hold the cosmetics. Photo: Dan Whipps
Stephen Burks_complementary suite of jamwood containers to hold the cosmetics. Photo: Dan Whipps
 
Abbott Miller_alternative textile elements might connect to the frame of the chair_Mackenzie Stroh
Abbott Miller_alternative textile elements might connect to the frame of the chair_Mackenzie Stroh
 
Abbott Miller_chair whose components can be shipped flat and dry-assembled with a rubber mallet_Jay Zukerkorn
Abbott Miller_chair whose components can be shipped flat and dry-assembled with a rubber mallet_Jay Zukerkorn
 
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