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If winter is your favorite season and an igloo is your idea of a dream home, this is the furniture for you. Design student Hongtao Zhou decided to put the Wisconsin cold to work for him and created a series of frozen furniture. Zhou said he was inspired to do this because of his desire to create sustainable furniture. It is a very unique way to point out the use of natural resources since every piece of furniture was made from fresh snow and lake water, but it does seem a little chilly for my tastes. Though not overly practical, it is good to see people thinking outside the box.  Drawing on his knowledge on green design, Zhou has found perhaps the most sustainable way of making furniture. “I came up with the idea to make snow furniture because humans need to work with nature instead of working against it.” The materials used for producing the life-sized chairs, tables, and “snow bowls for ice-cream” come from the lake itself. And as the weather gets warmer, the sculptures continue their green life-cycle as they dissolve back into the lake from whence they came. “They’re not melting away—they’re going back to the lake,” he explains.
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