During the Milan fair, designer Julia Lohmann has been experimenting with kelp. Instead of showing finished products, she has been using both an Irish kelp and a Japanese kelp to share the process of drying, re-hydrating, stretching and varnishing the marine plant. She notes "The Irish kelp turned out to be beautifully translucent and green whereas the Japanese Kombu was much browner and hard, almost like a 70’s plastic."...

Kelp grows up to a meter a day, and can be harvested sustainably. Perhaps we will be seeing more kelp products in the near future?

If kelp doesn't interest you as a material, perhaps sheep stomachs will? One of Julia's previous projects, Flock, makes use of 50 sheep stomachs as a lighting installation. Via: dezeen.

Originally posted by Aaron on AT:NY.