Hints and tips:
...to cardboard tubes and 3D printing....
...About 3ft high, it is fixed round tall bamboo canes, locked at the top as if they are supporting runner beans....
...From the Andes to Indonesia, bamboo has proved a remarkably resilient material....
...I came to over a cup of rooibos tea, and was extremely reluctant to remove my kimono and get dressed, knowing that real life and a Tube journey home lay ahead....
...In characteristic form, one of Canevari’s first works after meeting Vernon was a large rubber inner tube, happily tied up with cords, in the manner of Christo, Piero Manzoni – and bondage expert Vernon herself...
...The pièce de résistance – three velvety, speckled Vanda orchids (grown by Ansu), each in a tiny test tube – is placed at “prime positions” in the inner circle....
...The cultish award-winning Mistic vase and candleholder, six glass tubes that twist together, sits next to a menorah he made in his studio from offcuts of wood....
...Her attempts to create cheaper recliners — in bamboo, wood, canvas and tube — recur through the show, always bringing us back to that first photo....
...There is nothing like a packed, delayed Piccadilly Line Tube to undo the benefits of those 90 minutes — it would have been far preferable to pad back to my hotel room in my robe....
...The most refreshing contribution is a new garden at San Giorgio Maggiore, designed by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan for the Caravane Earth Foundation, with a bamboo and wool majlis (an Islamic room for gathering...
...The silverback still comes thundering out of the bamboo at a velocity that precludes proper social distancing. It is not exactly business as usual in Rwanda, but Rwanda is definitely back in business....
...Zhang Jun Jie, founder of homeware brand Sozen, combines bamboo-weaving with digital technology to create bamboo-based designs that include seating and lighting....
...I’ve travelled to visit ski manufacturers by helicopter, car and on skis before — but never on the Tube....
...In the renderings, it looks like a kind of bamboo-framed jungle, its hanging gardens and timber terraces having more of Bali in them than Rive Gauche....
...I swallowed a tube of energy gel, summoned my last vestiges of mental resolve, and resumed the climb. Somehow, 30 minutes later, we reached the top of the glacier....
...In Hackney, east London, Bamboo Bicycle Club holds weekend workshops in which customers can build their own bike frame from imported bamboo tubes....
...bridge opposite the Bamboo Bar, a favourite place for some dark mischief....
...Ban has experimented with recycled paper tubes as a material for building since 1986....
...Also look out for maple water and, even more niche, bamboo and cactus waters. Sibberi sources birch water from Latvia but is looking across the northern hemisphere....
...“At the end of the day sustainable building is about energy efficiency, not just bamboo floors and low-flow shower heads,” says co-founder Mark Rylant....
...Next, we picked out our bamboo tubes. The bamboo is imported from China and Colombia....
...“On a smaller scale, bamboo can be used like steel tubes, which are being used to build many contemporary buildings.”...
...He produced log cabins with cardboard tube structures crowned with plastic sheeting. These simple units were also used in the aftermath of natural disasters in Turkey and India....
...This console, called Pipe Show, is made of tubes of polished golden brass....
...“I love wearing chiffon saris in the summer with American Apparel tube tops and flat shoes, and the more dressy versions with lots of jewellery,” she says. “Now there are many new versions of the sari....
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