ART D'ECO & DESIGN

success story ! eco- design helps local communities and looks gorgeous in 5 stars eco-resort...

Sorry, friends, I can’t keep this success story all for myself. ...

In February 2009, I was asked by KHAMIR to design articles  that would uses the local artisans skills and  would also solved the “garbage problems “ of Bhuj, Gujarat. 

A collection of hand woven  table ware, bags and so on came out of this  development  period. 

Later in 2009, I ended up doing  an artist residency at the DUNE eco resort near Pondicherry ,  Tamil Nadu. DUNE was looking for eco friendly placemats for their 2 restaurants. the bridge was made. An order was placed with the people of KHAMIR. now these gorgeous colorful placemats are the highlight of the dinning tables at DUNE  and the artisans in Bhuj have a perfect “window “ for their goods as well as an income.   

 The artisans at Khamir said : “The order of 400 hand woven plastic table mats has 

helped us in many ways. Apart from addressing environmental concerns, 

It provided good rates of waste plastic to the women who collected it from 

garbage dumps. The order also helped to generated employment for the 

weavers who cleaned, graded and wove the plastic into beautiful plastic mats. 
As KHAMIR, It helped us to organize production process - from sourcing of plastic waste, cleaning and 

grading the same, weaving the mats and stitching the borders. KHAMIR is planning to take this 

process further”. 

ART D’ECO: Artist in Residence at the Dune eco resort/ village

 D.U.N.E sculpture, work in progress

this consists in 4 sculptures in shape of D. U . N. E with a metal frame (letters are + 2.5 m high ) and  used Kingfisher beer bottles  fixed on it. all in all, more than 2000 bottles  will be re-used for the completion of this project. . We decided , with the people from Dune to make this project “in time”   as the bottles get consumed  and become items to recycle.  soon,  each of us will be able to add his own bottle  to what has become an “interactive” project.

Once completed, the sculpture  will be lighted up from the inside and will be the  sign standing at the entrance of the  eco resort/village.

You are all invited to take part in it .

 

ART D’ECO: Artist in Residence at the Dune eco resort/ village

Chandelier in glass bottles + bicycle wheel

Using old beer bottles filled with water and an old bicycle wheel, a chandelier was created. The presence of water in the bottles emplifies the light.

 

 

ART D’ECO: Artist in Residence at the Dune eco resort/ village

 Medusa , Curly.....  lamps in used aluminium shutters

 

Dismantled broken aluminium shutters to make lamps for the Yoga Hall. the project ha been extended to all the rooms of the SPA, which is in traditional architecture from the South: roof in keeth (woven vegetal), from where the “fusion” style , aluminium/vegetal. different shapes have been developed. 33 lamps have been made with 4500 blades: each individually washed, cut, pierced and stitched.     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

ART D’ECO: Artist in Residence at the Dune eco resort/ village

Pop Bottle lamps

used mineral bottles (from the client’s consumption in the hotel)  have been filled up with coloured water: aligned or in circle, the effect is magic.   looks really nice in the huts of the kid’s playground.

ART D’ECO: Artist in Residence at the Dune eco resort/ village

mid September, ART D’ECO joined the artist in residence program

at the Dune eco resort/ village(www.thedunehotel.com) , near Pondicherry in South India.

The resort itself is a gorgeous green place on the beach and still in the making. 50 thematic villas and suites are available like hotel rooms.  there is the eco farm  (animals and vegetable) , the nursery, the SPA and its own herbs garden  and the  villas equipped with bikes for people to go around. the whole resort is run according to sustainability :  energy is solar or electrical (vehicles)  and  water is re-used in a closed water system (watering the gardens with used waters for instance) .

I have taken the opportunity to  re use all the construction waste or the waste generated by the clients everyday to make something new and needed in the resort.

Kid’s Palace

used water tank to recycle into kid’s house or mini Palaces for kids.. 3 huge tanks , opened with doors and windows  and painted with “nature” camouflage to be invisible in the playground.