Miso to mood lighting: Natural Material Studio repurposes restaurant seaweed waste
In Denmark, designer Natural Material Studio has made custom lighting for a sushi restaurant out of seaweed “salvaged” from miso soup that would otherwise be thrown out. The lights were installed during a recent interior renovation at Lyngby Japanese-Danish fusion hotspot Sticks n Sushi.
“Technically, you can find endless fibers and particles in biowaste,” Natural Material Studio founder Bonnie Hvillum told design publication dezeen. “They work perfectly as reinforcement in a biomaterial composition, regardless of what type of biopolymers you are working with. It is an endless game of combining things – very much like cooking!” The studio also made biobased textiles to create room dividers for the space.
Category: Chemicals & Materials
