Creating Green Design with Function
POSTED BY Jessica Thompson
April 22, 2011
With Earth Day approaching on April 22nd I begin to think of lush green, clean water, blue skies and warm wind- so cliche (or maybe that’s just my desperate feelings for summer to come quickly). Wanting to have warm toes open to the air I dream of sandals and sexy open toed pumps.
While in the this dreamy state a friend passed on to me a link to the Moss Rug. We are talking a living bath-mat! Who doesn’t love something that brings the outside indoors. Hoo design along with other distributors have taken the “Moss Carpet” to market after the online buzz it created when Nquyen La Chanh created it during her degree program at Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
"The humidity of the bathroom and the drops flowing from the body, water the mosses. This vegetation carpet procures a great feeling to your feet,” says Nquyen La Chanh. ="The idea was to a new way of having your plants inside. Not only plants in pots quietly standing in the corner of a living room but alive plants, evolving in the house."
This eccentric bath-mat is made out of 70 balls of moss held together in a latex frame has gone on sale after a prototype creation became a hit online.
La Chanh’s creation made me interested in what other designs she has thought up. After checking out her portfolio I was drawn one of her other ideas: the Kitchen Garden. Have fresh aromatic herblets in your kitchen. Just cut them when you need some. They can grow vertically.
I am inspired by her youthful creativity and ingenuity. I am hopeful about our future generations creating green designs that cross function and modern design.
Links: Earth Day / Hoo Design / La Chanh
While in the this dreamy state a friend passed on to me a link to the Moss Rug. We are talking a living bath-mat! Who doesn’t love something that brings the outside indoors. Hoo design along with other distributors have taken the “Moss Carpet” to market after the online buzz it created when Nquyen La Chanh created it during her degree program at Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
"The humidity of the bathroom and the drops flowing from the body, water the mosses. This vegetation carpet procures a great feeling to your feet,” says Nquyen La Chanh. ="The idea was to a new way of having your plants inside. Not only plants in pots quietly standing in the corner of a living room but alive plants, evolving in the house."
This eccentric bath-mat is made out of 70 balls of moss held together in a latex frame has gone on sale after a prototype creation became a hit online.
La Chanh’s creation made me interested in what other designs she has thought up. After checking out her portfolio I was drawn one of her other ideas: the Kitchen Garden. Have fresh aromatic herblets in your kitchen. Just cut them when you need some. They can grow vertically.
I am inspired by her youthful creativity and ingenuity. I am hopeful about our future generations creating green designs that cross function and modern design.
Links: Earth Day / Hoo Design / La Chanh
