German artist Gabriel Wiese discovered the potential of cork in furniture and object construction after he began studying to be a cabinetmaker. Design and construction technique experiments led him to a number of projects. He covered existing furniture with cork, created new forms using steel infrastructures and cork veneers, and made works of nothing but cork. His goal has been in “changing the simple stopper into an object of art.”
Carpets, chairs pictures, tables, chessboards, and clothes are among the many objects that Wiese has made from recycled cork bottle stoppers.
Especially working with cork fascinated me, so I devoted my attention to this material and learned about different methods of handling it. Results were, for instance, pictures, chessboards and a carpet made of cork. While making the carpet I got aware that every single piece of cork is like a different-looking brick and I asked myself: What else can I do with them? The cork changed from a simple stopper into an object of art.
(korkart.de)
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