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Elegant Design, in Cork and Glass

BY Cliff Kuang | 02-10-2009 | 11:22 AM

What can you do with a little bit of cork and some glass? Turns out, a lot. Tomas Kral, a designer based in Switzerland, fashions tables, vases, and lamps using that restricted palatte. The high-grade finish comes from a painstaking process: The glass is handbown, and the cork is CNC-milled (that is, routed with a computer-controlled drill). The pieces are included in London gallery show, up now, but here's a peak at the results:

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[Via Design Boom]