Corker Of a Bowl

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‘Corker Of a Bowl’

Every year 14.7 billion wine and champagne corks go to landfill every year, this fact paved the way for what is now known as the ‘Corker of a Bowl’

After a morning of champagne tasting, ONE establishment had enough corks to make one ‘Corker of a bowl’ Using this as my material I propose that breathing a new upcycled life into this ‘rubbish’ would severely drop the number of corks going into land fill, as the bowl is made to be had for a long amount of time, it would also keep the traditional rustic feel as cork are soon becoming a thing of the past.

As the cork gives a very complex pattern I wanted to utilise this in order to create different visual textures and surfaces using different sections of the cork, ultimately there would be a set number of corks per bowl. There is an extremely low level waste that is produced from the bowl, as the slicing of the sections doesn’t remove waste it simply separates sections leading to lack of dust produced.

The ‘Corker of a bowl’ successfully uses the character and many imperfections of each cork together to create a series of seemingly man made textures, this is achieved by a very simple method of slicing the corks to produce very accurate results, if it were to mass produced. The metal caps can also be utilised to create a lustrous surface adding a certain elegance and delicate ambience

The conventional or clichéd upcycling of any cork involves simply arrangement of the corks to make some sort of wall or board, so in making a bowl I steer away from such typical designs, this makes for a very unique and an excellent talking point with friends as the bowl itself is interesting.

The function of the bowl, being a coffee table bowl was chosen carefully after researching how much social activity occurs in the home for the bowl to inconspicuously noticed and talked about

Using Corks in this fashion opens the doors for all kinds of other pieces of furniture and ornaments, they look both elegant and interesting while being functional.