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Design and Recycled material | From coffee grounds to Coffee Cups |Amsterdam Coffee festival

Design and Recycled material

From coffee grounds to Coffee Cups

by Kaffeeform

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If you know me a little bit, you know I’m a real coffee lover! So the Amsterdam Coffee Festival was a perfect fit for me. All kinds of coffee professionals showed their newest products. And there I found these Coffee Cups made out of coffee grounds from Kaffeeform.

Not only the aspect that it’s a recycled and natural material spoke to me, but also the texture and color are very appealing. It actually looks a bit like a dark wood. “Dark marblewood” as the designer Julian Lechner says himself. Above all of that, each piece is unique and keeps a hint of coffee smell in it. Hmmmm :-)

And don’t think you have to throw away your cup after you finished your coffee…. No: It’s washable, durable and lightweight. Now thats good news isn’t it! I hope the cups are getting a lot of attention from design shops and coffee bars and shops so that Julian Lechner from Kaffeeform will develop more beautiful designs with this wonderful material.

Some more information from Koffeeform:

” Kaffeeform is an innovative recycled material made from used coffee grounds and renewable raw materials. After five years of experimentation and investigation, a unique formula was created to transform old coffee into new products……

The material itself and the series of coffee cups made from recycled coffee grounds will be exhibited for the first time in public at the Amsterdam Coffee Festival. An initial production run of 250 Kaffeeform cups will be offered exclusively at the fair stand.

The amount of daily coffee consumption world-wide is growing, thus the potential of reusing its waste for further uses is enormous. Kaffeeform is a sustainable material that aims to take advantage of these readily available waste materials to become an alternative to petrochemical based structural plastics.”

Enjoy!!More info: Kaffeeform

Design en gerecycled material
Van gemalen koffie pulp naar Koffie Kopjes
van Kaffeeform

Als je mij een beetje kent, dan weet je dat ik een echte koffie liefhebber ben! Dus het Amsterdam Coffee Festival was een “perfect mach” voor mij. Allerlei verschillende koffie professionals toonden hun nieuwste producten. En daar vond ik deze Coffee Cups gemaakt uit gemalen koffie pulp van Kaffeeform.

Niet alleen het feit dat het een gerecycled en natuurlijk materiaal is spreekt mij enorm aan, maar ook de textuur en kleur zijn heel aantrekkelijk. Het ziet er eigenlijk een beetje uit als donker hout. “Dark Marblewood” als de ontwerper Julian Lechner zelf zegt. Endaarbij: elk kopje is uniek en behoudt een vleugje koffie geur in het materiaal . Hmmmm :-)

En denk niet dat je je kopje weg moet gooien nadat je je koffie op hebt gedronken…. Nee: Het is wasbaar, duurzaam en lichtgewicht. Als dat geen goed nieuws is! Ik hoop dat de koffiekopjes een veel aandacht gaan krijgen van design winkels, koffiebars en koffiewinkels, zodat Julian Lechner van Kaffeeform nog veel meer prachtige ontwerpen van dit mooie materiaal kan gaan ontwikkelen.

Nog wat info van Kaffeeform zelf:

Kaffeeform is een
innovatieve materiaalsoort gemaakt van hergebruikt koffiedik en duurzame
grondstoffen. De unieke formule om oude koffie in nieuwe producten te
transformeren is ontwikkeld op basis van vijf jaar experiment en onderzoek. Om
de eindeloze mogelijkheden van dit nieuwe materiaal te demonstreren, zijn
koffiecups van Kaffeeform ontworpen – cups die dus gemaakt zijn van
koffieafval!

Het nieuwe materiaal en de
serie koffiecups gemaakt van hergebruikt koffiedik worden op het Amsterdam
Coffee Festival voor de eerste keer aan het publiek getoond. Een eerste serie
van 250 Kaffeeform koffiecups is exclusief verkrijgbaar op de festivalstand.

Doordat de wereldwijde
dagelijkse koffieconsumptie groeit, is er een enorm reservoir aan afval dat
hergebruikt kan worden. Kaffeeform is een duurzame materiaalsoort met de
potentie om uit te groeien tot een belangrijk alternatief voor plastics op
petrochemische

Geniet!!

Meer info: Kaffeeform

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Milan Design week 2015 | Textile | Ventura Lambrate | Ellinor Ericsson

Milan Design week 2015

Textile | Ventura Lambrate

Ellinor Ericsson

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Milan Design week 2015 | Ventura Lambrate
Ellinor Ericsson IN OUR NATURE – A TEXTILE FURNITURE FOREST.
Photo by C-More

During the Milan Design week the Dutch based Ventura Projects create a very inspiring spot in the Milan Lambrate area: Ventura Lambrate. Their vision is to:

emerging trends and talents

debuting and established creatives

show top quality and innovative design labels

and new processes and production methods conceptual and niche projects

This year the Ventura Lambrate was, again, a very interesting and inspiring event that you really don’t want to miss. I share some of my favourites here on my blog, starting with Ellinor Ericsson.

When I entered the space where the graduation students of The Royal Danish Academy of fine Arts were showcasing their work, my eye immediately was caught by the work of Ellinor Ericsson. Since my background is in fashion, I have a huge love for textile. The work of Ellinor consists of mainly textile pieces. The work is called IN OUR NATURE – A TEXTILE FURNITURE FOREST. She has a beautiful vision of living in an urban environment and wish I can have one of her pieces myself one day…

Enjoy!

More info by Ellinor Ericsson.

IN OUR NATURE – A TEXTILE FURNITURE FOREST.
Furniture is a part of our way of living and shows our behaviour, we furnish our lives with them and live in between them.
“BUT WHAT IS OUR NATURAL BEHAVIOUR?”In a digital world where contrasts speak up between the industry and craft, the urban city and the country, I wanted to experiment with the haptic experience to be in a furniture and an environment.
A textile environment, as in nature where it is not predetermined how to act or sit. An environment, which changes, grows and adapts to you depending on your actions.
“In Our Nature” is inspired by the free way we act in nature and the changed way we began to act with furniture as the technology became mobile. Today we take our laptop from our office space and work from home in our bed or lying on our couch.
The space between private life and work has been erased and as we are both working from the office chair and the bed we need a new way of using furniture.
I have created a furniture space were you can interact with different textile structures and objects to create different settings for your everyday life and activities.
The different textiles stimulate your senses, through the structure, material and the heavy weight. The heavy weight in the textiles has a psychological effect as it slows you down and make you feel grounded with a heavy blanket on top of you, or carrying the table.
The furniture is a square furniture space as I deleted the couch table and invite you to cuddle up with the textile objects and the tray table. The construction is in oak wood, with a braided seat in cotton. The Textile collection consists of; Three different blankets in wool and cotton, one wool carpet, five pillows, a wool lamp and a textile/oak table.