Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin creates furniture and other housewares (woodstove, prams, chairs, etc) from rusting naval "Blok" mines recovered from an ex-Soviet fortress on Naissaar Island, an Estonian island off the Finnish coast. This desk gives me the desiderata shivers.
Marinemine – The Mine furniture:
- Furniture made from reclaimed wine-barrels
- Furniture made from aviation salvage
- Enormous library desk made of books
- Furniture made out of used books
- Chairs made from crates that are better than the chairs shipped in …
- Chairs made from Coca Cola bottles
- Furniture made from old bicycles
- Salvage bench made from old chairs and a headboard
- Furniture from factory waste
- High-end skateboard furniture
- Furniture with partial humans supporting it
- Birdhouses made from VHS and cassette tapes
- Arborsculpture: furniture made from living trees
- Furniture from reclaimed wood
