We've said it so often that even we are somewhat tired of hearing it, but..... Portugal has lots of cork. Portugal has a, relatively, weak economy, Portugal has lots of very talented designers. 1+1+1= More Portuguese cork design would be an excellent idea. And while some Portuguese labels such as Blackcork, CorkWay or Vicara are investigating, admittedly with various degrees of success, contemporary uses for cork, in general when one finds Portuguese cork in the home it is invariably in
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Cork. At the moment there is simply no getting away from it. A couple of weeks ago Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec unveiled their Cork Desk for Vitra at Orgatec. Back in April we had Cover by Daphna Laurens at Dutch Invertuals in Milan. And last year at Dutch Design Week we marvelled at Tiago Sá da Costa's Corkmatters Lamp exhibited as part of the Made Out Portugal #4 show. Might not sound like much, but given that before Eindhoven 2011 the last serious cork product we can remember seeing was
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