These are bottlecaps??

When I first arrived at the core77 site I immediately noticed the bright, colorful objects pictured at the left. I went on to read this article, posted by squee.gee, titled Design objects from recycled bottle caps to learn that this bag and stool were created by Athanassios Babalis for teh Green Design Festival 2008. The stool is made from 2150 recycled bottlecaps, and the bag is made from 370 bottlecaps.

Although I'm not sure this is the most practical method for recycling bottle caps, it certainly does make 2 very interesting pieces. Both the stool and bag are immediately eye-catching because of their color but also out of curiosity for what they are made from. In this sense these pieces serve as a pieces of art work, functional objects, and a means of education on recycling.