NY Design Week 2011: CORQUE – Designing Living Objects

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Fun fact: the majority of the world’s cork comes from Portugal. Conservative estimates come in at 50% while some figures put it at nearly 70%, but either way, that’s a lot of cork for a relatively small country—one whose total population is between that of Michigan and Ohio.

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Ana Mestre and Gonçalo Riscado are among the 10.65m who call Portugal home, and they’ve taken it upon themselves to spread the word about the sustainable natural resource from their corner of the world, through their new home furnishings venture CORQUE design.

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