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We’ve come across many things made from road signs, including this fence, but nothing as intricate as artist Greely Myatt’s “Quiltsurround,” a 32-panel public art installation in downtown Memphis.

Using about 700 speed-limit, caution, and stop signs (and even a few Memphis City Beautiful signs), Myatt designed traditional quilt patterns in 4-by-12 foot panels. The panels … hide a chain-link fence and City Hall’s heating and cooling system.

“We didn’t have a very good budget for this, and the idea of recycling is part of quilting, so I had the idea of taking the street signs that the city was going to recycle,” Myatt said. “I knew that material would withstand the outdoors.”

Art students from the University of Memphis, where Myatt teaches sculpture, helped fabricate the panels.

(Via Quilts Made From Street Signs @Craftzine.com blog. Photos via Jenean Morrison; quotes from Memphis Flyer.)

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Crates cabinet by Mark van der Gronden Request

‘Indestructible second hand crates get a second life as drawers in a steel cabinet. Since the supply of plastic crates varies continuously your version of crate cabinet is the only one in the world. (via Crates cabinet | Droog Furniture | by Mark van der Gronden)’

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Those of you who’ve been reading Unconsumption for a while might recall our 2010 post about Milan’s Maison Moschino — the boutique hotel the Italian fashion house Moschino opened in 2010 in a retrofitted 1840 railway station — where some guest rooms are furnished with ball gowns as headboards. 

Turns out, the hotel offers additional Unconsumption-y design inspiration in the form of lamps made from dresses. (photo via DiarioDesign)

Related: For a review of the hotel, described “as a place for playful photo shoots,” among other things, check out this January 2011 writeup from The New York Times. 

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Rainy day wear:  

Broken umbrellas upcycled into skirts.

(Skirt by Cecilia Felli. Spotted by Marilyn Maciel, @MarilynM, on Crooked Brains. Thanks, Marilyn!)

(via craftastrophies)