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Venice Biennale installation by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.
Adaptive reuse is defined as the aesthetic process that adapts buildings for new uses while retaining their historic features. Using an adaptive reuse model can prolong a building's life, from cradle-to-grave, by retaining all or most of the building system, including the structure, the shell and even the interior materials. [5]
Trencadís (Catalan pronunciation: [tɾəŋkəˈðis]), also known as pique assiette, broken tile mosaics, bits and pieces, memoryware, and shardware, is a type of mosaic made from cemented-together tile shards and broken chinaware. [1] [2] Glazed china tends to be preferred, and glass is sometimes mixed in as well, as are other small materials ...
Broken China was Wright's first solo record since 1978's Wet Dream and the last before his death in September 2008. Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour played on "Breakthrough", but the approach for the song was changed later on, and Gilmour's performance was not used on the finished release.
It was especially popular on screens, which were common in China. Lacquer inlaid with mother of pearl was a technique used especially on furniture. [2] Chinese furniture is usually light, whenever possible, anticipating Europe by several centuries in this respect.
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The shoji frame is a panel called a kōshi (格 （ こう ） 子 （ し ）, literally "lattice"). [15] It is assembled from interlocking laths of wood or bamboo called kumiko. [16] "
Lacquerware is a longstanding tradition in Japan [6] [7] and, at some point, kintsugi may have been combined with maki-e as a replacement for other ceramic repair techniques. . While the process is associated with Japanese craftsmen, the technique was also applied to ceramic pieces of other origins including China, Vietnam, and Kor