São Paulo Collection | Studio Swine

United Kingdom / United Kingdom / 2013

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Studio Swine’s 'São Paulo Collection' has been designed and made in São Paulo, Brazil. 
Inspired by the Brazilian tropical modernism of the 1950’s Swine has transformed waste materials sourced from the city into a luxury design collection. São Paulo is known in scrap metal circles as the ‘Aluminium Capital’, collecting and recycling more cans than anywhere else in the world. The material's potential has been explored through sand casting with the naturalistic details captured in the cactus coffee table, and the contemporary abstracted palm pattern in the lounge chair.

The bottle bulbs are a lighting pieces made from beverage bottles that have been heated and re-blown into a eclectic collection of organic forms without the conventional recycling process where the glass is broken down into cullet first. This results in a clearer higher quality glass requiring less energy and retaining some mark of the previous industrially manufactured form. The bulbs are fitted with customised brass fittings and LEDs. 'São Paulo Collection' was made for Coletivo Amor de Madre Gallery with the kind support of Heineken.
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    Studio Swine’s 'São Paulo Collection' has been designed and made in São Paulo, Brazil. 
Inspired by the Brazilian tropical modernism of the 1950’s Swine has transformed waste materials sourced from the city into a luxury design collection. São Paulo is known in scrap metal circles as the ‘Aluminium Capital’, collecting and recycling more cans than anywhere else in the world. The material's potential has been explored through sand casting with the naturalistic details captured in the cactus...

    Project details
    • Year 2013
    • Work finished in 2013
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Lighting Design / Furniture design / Product design
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