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Eco-friendly and Fashionable
For decades cork has been used for bulletin boards but this recyclable and flexible product is becoming more and more a multi-purpose base for fashionable and functional items for the home. It can be used or flooring, countertops, chairs, salad bowls, coasters, stools, tables, upolstery fabrics and wall paper.
Cork Bath Mat
Amazon Price: $24.00 (as of 12/28/2009)
"Replace a bacteria-breeding bath mat with this all-natural cork alternative. The naturally antifungal bath mat dries quickly because it won't hold moisture. Soft, nonslip surface. Sustainably harvested; manufacturer is a certified member of the Forest Stewardship Council."
Cork Board Tray Kit
Amazon Price: $47.90 (as of 12/28/2009)
"Pop those wine corks...and create a wine cork serving tray. Our wine cork kits are one of our most popular products, since half the fun is in the making! The serving tray in maple will make your guests impressed with not just your food but the tray too. Just arrange the wine corks on the tray and slide the clear Plexiglas cover over them. Everything stays in place without a messy gluing process. Includes oak tray, Plexiglas cover and instructions. You supply the corks. Approximately 108 wine corks are required to complete wine cork tray."
Cork on the Web
- Daniel Michalik Furniture Design
- Specializing in cork and renewable material furniture design.
- Jasper Morrison's Cork chair
- Limited edition piece made from precision milled blocks of recycled wine-bottle corks.Phot
- Walz Work
- Kevin Walz of Walzworkinc is a world-renowned designer and artist with a studio in Rome and an office in New York. His award-winning work is frequently in design magazines worldwide. Walz is the recipient of the Rome Prize and is in the Interior Design Hall of Fame.
- Cork Flooring | Cork Floors | FastFloors.com
- Find superior quality Cork Flooring by name brand manufacturers at FastFloors.com.
- Branch - Sustainable Living
- Cork stool, lounge, salad bowls.
- Design Within Reach: The Best in Modern Design
- Cork stools and tables.
- Tretiak - Cork Chair
- A collection of work by Nick Tretiak. Featuring furniture, jewelry, housewares, and other objects.
- Jelinek Cork Group - Eco-friendly since 1855.
- Manufacturers and distributors of cork products. Specializing in cork flooring, cork underlayment, stoppers and closures for the wine and liquor industry, gaskets, cork fabric, cork for the music industry, fishing and sporting goods cork.
- Habitus Architectural Finishes New York City www.habitusnyc.com
- New York City based company that is a major importer of the finest architectural finishes including cork tile and cork fabric.
Office Furniture Partition
Office Furniture Partition - 4 Panel - 6ft. Cork Bulletin Board Display Privacy Screen Room Divider
Amazon Price: $399.99 (as of 12/28/2009)
"A sturdy well crafted 3 panel screen designed to provide privacy or partition as well a large area of divided cork covered surfaces to post bulletins, messages, reminders, documents, maps, diagrams, photos, artwork - anything! Durable product, of 100% kiln dried Scandinavian Spruce"
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Things to Do with Wine Corks
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Collect in a glass vase
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Cork Yoga Blocks
It's not surprising that an activity as healthy as yog would also have accessories made from a renewable resources like cork.These cork yoga block come in 3" and for 4" sizes for $11.49 from Yoga Accessories.
Visit Yoga Accessories for cork yoga blocks.
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Jul 17, 2009 @ 7:41 am
- Hmmm, that cork board tray looks like a good idea for all the wine bottle corks we have saved. I keep throwing them in the trash and DH keeps retrieving them -- maybe I'll let him make that cork board tray and do a lens on it?
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- Susan Susan Jun 9, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
- At a wine fair I saw a woman who covered a purse with various corks. I t was interesting and beautiful
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