Designer Laura Cahill wanted to make art without wasting new material. She did a bunch of research, and found out that used books are the most common unwanted objects; they're also notoriously hard to recycle because of the kind of glue bookbinders used to use. So she took her second-hand book collection and turned it into beautiful pieces of furniture. The bench is pretty self-explanatory, but for flower vases and lamp posts, Cahill uses a band saw to cut the books in....
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