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Hot or Not? Fethi Atakol's Functional Artwork

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It was a colander ... now it's a lampshade. It's one of Fethi Atakol's pieces of functional art.

More images of Atakol's work at Inhabitat

Comments (6)

Neither. It's just plain stupid. Reminds me of Lucy and Ethel in Paris, when Ricky and Fred tricked them into wearing feedbag hats and burlap dresses as the latest 'couture'. Of course, at the end of the episode, you see two 'swans' walking by wearing the same things, the ideas stolen, of course, à la today's 'star designers'....

posted by Justin (the first one) on 2008-04-25 12:18:52
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This is hideous and exactly the type of thing that gives green design a bad name and causes people to not be open to green alternatives... sustainable design can be beautiful and doesn't have to look like a garbage made into something else.

posted by Tyffany DeGray on 2008-04-25 12:37:12
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It looks like something out of Beverly Hillbillies decor - or a tacky take on cabin decorating......

ugh.

And I bet it is top heavy.

posted by Janella13 on 2008-04-28 14:09:24
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I think it would look 10 times better if the handles were removed.

I prefer the colander clock on the linked website.

posted by insanity_pepper on 2008-04-28 14:24:22
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ick. trashy.

posted by animalhouze on 2008-04-28 15:22:09
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I love re-use but this doesn't work. Handle looks like a big bottle opener stuck on there.

posted by jendavid99 on 2008-04-28 16:27:32
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