Source: Orangelle Design
Clothes hangers are clogging our landfills at a rate of nearly 8 billion per year. We’ve recently brought you designers who have been developing brilliant ways to tackle the problem through eco-friendly materials and innovative new designs. Now industrial designers Alex Witko and Courtney Hunt at Organelle Design have hit upon another great idea — Hangeliers, wonderful chandeliers made from off-the-shelf plastic and wood hangers.
As many Inhabitat readers already know, re-purposing objects, recycled and/or found, can be a tricky business. It takes time, a good eye and not a little bit of luck. With Hangeliers, Organelle Design got it right. Organelle uses re-purposed off-the-shelf hangers, which removes them [if only temporarily] from the landfill cycle. Hangeliers are unique, beautiful and draw attention to the issue of landfill waste at the same time.
Not to be confused with ‘The Langoliers’ [the notoriously awful TV movie based on Stephen King's novella] Organelle’s Hangeliers are reminiscent of modern masters such as Nelson and Henningson—elegant design, precise thinking and a subtle nostalgia. With their commitment to innovation, sustainability and high design, Organelle is certainly a shop to watch.
Comment: Products with recycled and reused materials have always been a good idea, but few designs have achieved such a level elegancy as the hangeliers by the design firm Organelle. Forget about the expensive crystal chandeliers, this hangelier is usuful and beautiful, and most importantly, saved our already very crowded landfills.
I think another important thing is that this design actually shows us a new possibility of reuse materials-- use massive amount of recycled materials in a repetitve form to recreate. Hangers are not inherently related to chandeliers, nor are they the only thing to make a recycled chanderlier, we may also make recycled chanderliers by shattered mirrors, combs, cups, glass bottles, whatever thing you could think of. On the other side, chanderlier is not the only form recycled materials can lead to. Any daily objects we see can be made from something else. I think by doing this kind of open-ending, unending thought experiment, we will definitely have more amazing green designs like this.
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