Pitchfork   The Dissolve   Festivals: Chicago | Paris

After spending five months as ex-pats in São Paulo, Brazil, designers Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves who work as Studio Swine, turned to the city's trash for their new line of lamps. Both the green glass bulbs and the pine woodwork were sourced from refuse (the wood from a local carpentry shop), and the glass from bottles found around the beach. But don't think that bottles in Brazil are naturally that interesting: instead of completely recycling the glass, the pair simply heated and re-blew the found bottles. It saved a considerable amount of energy, and left subtle textures from the original forms. [via]