Junktion: If They Can’t Upcycle It, Nobody Can
There’s a sad sight. After they’ve lugged your belongings from one corner of the world to the other and obviously won’t last another mile, the final stop for your careworn companions is the trash. There’s no alternative. It’s a fact.
Nonsense, says the team at Junktion!
If you’re keen to make your life a trashless one (particularly on Tuesdays), there are many ways to upcycle your garbage – but there’s a limit, surely? There are some items that you can’t do anything with – like empty gas bottles…?
No trying this at home, please. Junktion are professionals and know how to get into gas bottles safely!
Based in Tel Aviv and founded in 2008, this upcycled design company is interested in all the everyday things folk leave behind (rather like the Wombles, then). They’re keen to challenge our concept of “junk”, and they think there’s quite enough stuff in the world already for their creative purposes.
A car trunk door becomes a sofa. A chopper bicycle reforms itself, Transformers-style, into a stool. Metal piping becomes a classy-looking towel rail.
And if it’s attention-grabbing decor you’re after, how about this industrial-style octopus of a lamp, made from a metal cooking pot writhing with swarms of illuminated teapots? Or desklights make of bakelite-style phones?
Junktion trades out of their shop in Tel Aviv, asking locals to supply them with the raw materials. If they opened near you, would you be a regular customer?
Images: Junktion (via Haute*Nature) and Phineas H.
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2 Comments
October 26th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Loved this site and especially the suitcase tables and hospital privacy screen gone display rack!
October 26th, 2009 at 11:39 am
While I love the idea of upcycling, usually the results aren’t really to my taste. This is a cool departure from the usual too-funky designs. Thanks, Mike.
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