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Product Design

Upcycled Spaces

Reduce, reuse, recycle. The three r’s for an environmentally conscious lifestyle may sound tired, but a new twist to the green tale, via contemporary variations on the theme of upcycling, is turning the tide – and nowhere more so than in the interiors industry.

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14 Oct 2011
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