Partner Emanuela Frigerio was invited to showcase two of her projects for Kitchen Ecology: Recipes for Good Design, an exhibition curated by designboom. The exhibit focused on innovative kitchen design with an emphasis on reducing environmental impact. This summer, the exhibition was hosted at Dwell on Design in Los Angeles, and this past December was showcased in Korea at the Seoul Design Festival .

kitchen_ecology_600 Emanuela’s projects featured for this environmentally-aware showcase were the “I Bottle My Own” water bottles designed for Riverkeeper’s Drink Tap Water campaign and the Crane Paper, 100% Cotton: The Definitive Collection Swatchbook, showcasing paper made of recovered cotton fibers from textile and cotton gin processing. riverkeeper_bottles riverkeeper_bottles_3_desingboom

These two projects were among over one hundred innovative and well-designed products from the freshest and most up-and-coming international designers. Both of these exhibitions “explore[d] ways to tweak the basic ingredients that make up our kitchens to produce the most eco-friendly, energy efficient models possible.” Image credit: Exhibit photography courtesy of designboom.