The home project är ett litet experimentellt designföretag som drivs av Kathi Stertzig och Albio Nascimento, och det är baserat i både Portugal och Tyskland, de båda ägarnas hemländer. De gör en hel del udda projekt och happenings, men skapar också egna inredningsprodukter, som de här virkade skålarna och äggkopparna, som gjorts stela med salt, och porslinsmuggarna här nedanför, med isolerande kork runt om. Läs mer om kork som ekologiskt material i den engelska texten.

The home project is a small experimental design company, run by Kathi Stertzig and Albio Nascimento. It is based in both Portugal and Germany, the founders respective homelands. They do quite a lot of weird projects and happenings, but also produce some interior decorating objects like these crocheted bowls and egg cups, and the porcelain mugs below, with insulating cork cuffs and edges.

This is what Albio and Kathi has to say about cork as an eco-friendly material:

Our interest in cork lies in the contradiction between being a totally natural material with many unique features on one side and its lack of applications in industrial-product design. The cork life cycle, from production to recycling, is a clean one, without any by-products: all waste from production; lower quality material or obsolete product is grind to obtain the granules from which are made recycled cork blocks. This new material has almost the same qualities as natural cork and is used to manufacture a wide range of products: from footwear to automobile applications. In some applications of the aerospace and chemical industry it has no synthetic substitutes, due to its high resistance to extreme conditions.
More, cork bark is still harvested from the tree in a centuries old tradition with hand tools; the water in which the material has to be boiled after collected is not polluted by the process; all means to work and prepare cork are mechanical based and even the dust resulting from this is used to generate electric energy.