Hasta La Ideas

We stopped by the ‘Thai Materials’ exhibition which recently opened at Material ConneXion’s New York City headquarters. The show features a collection of products, prototypes and case studies that demonstrate practical uses for new and emerging eco-friendly materials from Thailand.

There’s a broad range of indigenous materials to checkout including; papers made with banana plant fibers, edible packaging derived from casava starch, bio-active fabrics made with bacteria cultured in pineapple juice, and particle board made from recycled post-consumer denim.

The exhibition runs through till August 31, 2011, and you never know who you might see there—we just missed a McQueen-clad Daphne Guinness visiting the materials library.

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