Cork is only the beginning.
Within each work, selected haute couture textiles - rare silks and satin cottons sourced from Italian fashion ateliers - introduce a second, quieter layer of luxury.
Materials chosen not to impress, but to endure.
#CorkFashionArt#MaterialIntelligence#Provenance
Explore topics ranging from Norse mythology to the process of tanning and environmental impact.
Read more on #Leather in the latest issue of #MaterialIntelligence. bit.ly/3nNKL1N
Nylon was not grown, mined, or gathered, but instead manufactured in a laboratory. A team at E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., led by Wallace Hume Carothers worked for over a decade to refine the process.
#Nylon’s origin story from #MaterialIntelligence: bit.ly/3nNKL1N
"With #nylon, we are traversing new terrain—in fact, the terrain of newness itself."
The 6th issue of #MaterialIntelligence takes its cue from the six carbon atoms that identify the chemical structure for nylon, the magazine’s first synthetic material. materialintelligencemag.org/
The Center for Design and Material Culture (@uw_cdmc) is hosting the inaugural #MaterialIntelligence Workshop around the theme "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Material Intelligence in Context."
Join us via Zoom on Thurs, May 4. Register: bit.ly/3nmks2Z
“For as long as there have been tools, tools have been made from obsidian.”—Thomas J. Connolly
đź“– Read the full #MaterialIntelligence issue on #obsidian. bit.ly/3nNKL1N
ALT Zoomed in image of porous black rock with text “Ancestral toolstone Thomas J. Connolly”
“The physical properties of obsidian, a hardness greater than that of ordinary steel and the ability to cleave to a fine edge, have made obsidian a prized material for millennia.”—Anita Grunder
Read more from the #MaterialIntelligence issue on #obsidian: bit.ly/3nNKL1N
ALT Boulders of obsidian with the text “Obsidian, the ancient stuff” and “Anita Grunder”