Natural Wool Felt Bags and Home Accessories, by Planar
Photos: Planar.
Argentine designers Pablo di Muzio, Lucila Flombaum and Natalia di Muzio have created Planar, a line of bags and home accessories that take advantage of local materials and are built with patterns that create minimum waste.
Click through to see how the bags are cut in the extended.One of the main points of green design is taking advantage of local materials, which promote the well being of communities and save emissions in transportation. With that idea in mind, the designers from Planar began investigating which responsible materials they could find that took advantage of local resources.
This is how they found natural wool felt, a material entirely organic and biodegradable, low-tech and with an aesthetic feel that could be adapted to current trends.
With this material they developed a set of patterns to create bags and home accessories that take advantage of the material creating little waste.
"The products keep a simple and sincere language in their composition, they express what they are and how they were conceived, trying to create a connection with the user and the productive process," the designers explain.
The bags from the pictures below are the Mamushka model, a set of three accessories: wallet, purse, and bag. The natural color of the felt is enhanced with water-based inks.
Set of three bags showing how they're cut.
The large bag in use.
Purse.
Wallet.
The rest of the pictures show a set of coasters and centerpieces, the beginning of a house accessories collection that will expand the line.
Coasters.
Larger coasters or centerpieces.
Centerpieces.
Planar objects are in experimental phase. If you're interested in finding out more, contact the designers via their website or blog.
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