We ask the questions: Q&A with vintage homewares visionary Lou Rota
November 22nd, 2009 admin
Topics: birmingham, design, features, lou rota, marrakech, self-catering, shopping, staying cool, vintage
If you haven’t yet seen the work of hip homewares-customiser Lou Rota … well, you should. Lou forages for cast-off crockery and furniture, reinvents it using collage, découpage and a healthy dose of imagination, and produces some of the most intriguing eco-chic artworks around today. Plastic stacking chairs are given fabulous floral makeovers and chintz-patterned china that would make us wince in a boutique-hotel setting is reinvented by a trail of beetles crawling across or a beady-eyed raven …
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