I should confess to ambiguous feelings about the current show. It is fun in places, less so in others and several of the pieces one might wish to see re-recycled. But what really pushes the whole thing off-kilter is the context. Recycling in the First World is a life-style choice. It is design and consequently gets exhibited in art-spaces.
Every last bit is recycled.
In Reclaimed is the TranSglass Bottle Collection. We chose to develop a recycled glassware range because we think recycling is important. Unfortunately the glassware really isn't very nice, which I suppose betrays only the most important of the makers' ambitions. I doubt, too, if it would prove more economical than similarly recycled local products, but then they are not Design. Far preferable are the pieces of whimsy, works that are less outrageous, dare one say less dated, in their ambition.