Anke Weiss

You can never have too many nice lamps right? Well anyway, I came across these beautiful lamps created from old cartons for milk, cereals and washing detergent. Anke Weiss has her studio in Amsterdam, like som many other designer talents! And the beauty of it is really that it´s recycling. So again you see that fun and interesting design doesn´t have to cost a fortune.

“Driftwood is the new Costa Rican mahogany”

More and more It´s totally 2009 and apparently becoming more trendy to salvage, remake and resell old stuff. And here is another great example of how to rebrand something as plain as driftwood. Carter and Cunningham, a joint venture between partners Mark Welsh and James Salaiz named after their mothers’ families. The two are handmaking mirrors, sculptures and furnishings from salvaged materials in clever combinations with beautiful ceramic pieces from James Salaiz.