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IE-tag by Naruse Inokuma Architects
Tokyo firm Naruse Inokuma Architects created these pads of page markers from demolished wooden houses.
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Called IE-tag, the notes come in blocks shaped like gabled houses and can be arranged to represent a little village on a desk or along a book's edge.
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The information below is from Naruse Inokuma Architects:
IE-tag
Yuri Naruse + Jun Inokuma
Naruse Inokuma Architects
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This is a tag made of paper from wooden building waste.
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In regenerating wooden building waste into paper, rather than discarding or burning it for energy, we propose the entire process flow up to the final product.
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This tag is shaped as a house, retaining the memory of the material when it was part of a house.
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When several are arranged together, they form a town. What had originally been part of townscape now creates a small version of townscape on your desk.
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Monster by Tomáš Král and Camille Blin for OKOLO | Bookmark lamp by Léonard Kadid |
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