British designer Lucy Renshaw creates colorful furniture and home accessories out of recycled fabrics and repurposed materials. In making her origin designs, Lucy Renshaw combines experimental ideas with traditional textile techniques like surface embellishment, embroidery, and screen printing. Her materials include popsicle sticks, knit fabrics, socks, and broken chair pieces.
Inspired by her travels to the Caribbean and South America, Lucy Renshaw works with bright colors and mixed prints. She has a book coming out in September 2009 titled "mixed media & found materials." Her products are sold online through the U.K. website Glimpse Online. See more of Lucy Renshaw's designs on her website.
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As much as I like the concept, these are too self-consciously "amateur" for my taste.
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In Maine, believe it or not, people go to "the transfer station" (the dump) to get stuff like this to recycle and reuse making new things out of it like Lucy has.
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I love the idea of using recycled or found materials to make beautiful and new things!...but until they become more affordable, this is a bandwagon I won't be jumping on.
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Inspiring.
If i do it, it's trashpicking.
If she does it, it's art.
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I'm kind of a form-follows-function gal. Not getting the conjoined white chair. But I accept it as art.
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