One week ago I got to see Product Runway at the Seattle Exhibition Hall. As an Seattle interior designer I eagerly anticipated the fashion designs of 18 teams using materials from carpet, tiles, textiles, lighting… all the materials used in interiors but not in clothing. Like the 1,100 attendees I was wowed! Just look at the winning design by Pental Granite & Marble, LUWA (a distributor for Miele and others) and SKB Architects. Tim Gunn… you might audition interior designers in your next season. Description follows.

Now for the ‘ingredients’:

• The flannel looking fabric is part of a warming drawer, like inside of a coffee maker. The tiles are our glass tiles. They’re mainly used for back splashes for bathrooms and kitchens.
• silver wiring is from a thermometer that goes into your turkey, and we just peeled off the black coating, and there was this beautiful braid of silver.
• the metal tile was on a mesh sheet with a ceramic base tile. We had to peel them off, and use a razor blade to cut them.
• leather looking fabric is the sound damper that goes along the toe kick of a Miele dishwasher.
• handbag came from the heating vent on the top of a dryer; we punched holes into it. Then, we took some Miele screws, and put ceramic tiles in between. The inside is a vacuum liner.
• earrings-made from tile. We de-laminated the mosaic.

The descriptions are from an interview which can be read here.

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