Check out the new Toast coasters and trivets — looks like bread but it's cork, the lightweight, durable, insulating, naturally antibacterial and sustainable bark of the cork tree. Safe to harvest approximately every 10 years, cork is frequently used for decorative accessories and here are some of our new favorites using cork.
• 1 Toast Coasters by Brazilian design studio Oiti
• 2Whistler Cork Tea Service by Raquel Castro - individual pieces range from $10 - $25 at MoMAStore
• 3Recycled French Bottle Lamp with Cork Shade - $439 at VivaTerra
• 4 Slow Glow lamp sits on a cork base - $795 at The Future Perfect
• 5 Tag Coffee Table with recycled cork top by Arktura - $
Smart & Simple Small Space Solution: Angela & Tania's "Murphy Table"
Monica & Austin's Charming Bungalow
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Ercol Bar Stool
Why I Became a 1-Gallon Homebrewer
True Greek Recipe: Paximadi Bread Salad with Tomatoes, Feta and Capers
Eight hundred bucks for melting soy fat in a test tube? I guess not.
We have just bought a 1920s house with unsealed filthy 70s cork panels lining the main bedroom.
It's going before I can even contemplate spending a night there!
Cork has its place - in the Champagne bottles!
Agreed. That Slow Glow lamp is ugly. And $$$$! Yikes.
the first picture is so delicious!