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JVC’s Sound Garden Sustainable Speaker Planters

by Matt Embrey on November 1st, 2008

This concept from JVC dubbed the Sound Garden “Kirikabu” Speakers were debuted this week at Tokyo Designer’s Week. These modular, multi-directional speakers are made of recycled and sustainable materials, like recycled sliding door casings. I’m not sure why there’s a bonsai tree growing out of it, but it does make for a cool aesthetic! [...]

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Zen in a Box: The Kibako Green Trunk

by Matt Embrey on October 10th, 2008

For those who like to compartmentalize, French company Pinel & Pinel bring you Zen in a box with the Kibako Green Trunk. Part of their collection of trunks that put everything you’d need in a box of some kind, the green trunk lets you garden in a trunk. Outfitted with an 80w Osram horticultural light, [...]

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