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GARBAGE Recycled Kitchenware Lighting

48 by Doug Gunzelmann on January 26, 2009

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Gilles Eichenbaum, also known as Garbage, is a Paris based designer and artist who melds antique household items into captivating light fixtures. Truly gorgeous.

Garbage claims to be an adventurer at heart and came into this trade by manufacturer common necessities using that which he found on his travels. If he were camping in a far off land or living out of a truck, Gillies would use an old pot as a lampshade or chair from scrap wood. Eventually it become such a pastime, and he intrigued those around him with his unique use of odd objects, that he began to sell his creation for a profit.

His slogan: “Your dustbins have talent!”

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Using items such as old coffee pots, frying pans, utensils, shoe lasts, electric drills, tea pots, colanders, a top hat, a phone, each matched with other objects to create timeless and forever useful pieces of decorative furnishings. Gillies promotes himself as a craftsman first and foremost yet has an unarguable artistic eye.

See more of his work on the next page and see more recycled lighting and DIY light fixtures on our site.

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Doug is in perpetual motion and a self-proclaimed adventure junkie, that has had a longtime love affair with the great outdoors.

“I love being a part of the active world. The stuff that blows my hair back is adventure (all shapes and sizes), photography, mountaineering, Muay Thai, and seeing natural beauty in all its forms. The living earth is the framework on which I build my life and free time. My ideal trip would be BASE jumping at Sotano de Las Golandrinas in Mexico (closest I could come to skydiving through the jungle!). I work towards keeping it real, green, and healthy. ”

Doug is the co-founder of LiveOAK, although he says he didn’t know what a blog was until a couple months after he started.

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