Recycled lamps from banana if you are looking to make a strong bold innovative interior design statement a step beyond anything you might

These one of a kind, high fashion designer pieces are all made by artisan Domingos Totora and a team of artisans from Brazil.

Every item in the fiber collection is a unique handmade decorative and utilitarian piece that reflects an adherence to ethnic ancestral style. The modern design draws attention by its simplicity and natural beauty. The raw materials used for the creation of these lamps are: banana fibers (raw materials discarded at harvesting), recycled kraft paper (from cement bags) and natural pigments extracted from the ground/soil.

Creollus banana fiber creation story in pictures… from banana fiber to final product.

artisan Domingos Totora said:
“…We recycle paper and fibers in a creative and alternative way so as to generate employment. This work has improved the lives of people and community as a whole. Our people are allowed to let their imagination flow and create as they please.”

Atlanta-based Creollus designs, creates and hand manufactures high-end art pieces, fashion and home accessories out of recycled materials such as coffee filter, cardboard, newspapers, banana leaf, gourds… and transform them into lamps, bags, belts, hats, tables, chairs… just to name a few.

Founder Grace Dantas said, “Our entire company product inventory is born from techniques that equally value and respect a cleaner and healthier natural environment through the recycling of common commercial and household materials. We are enabling a unique group of sorely underserved artists to form a business cooperative that will significantly improve their standard of living, and give them an appreciative, worldwide audience for their craft.”

For more information visit www.creollus.com

About Creollus - Our story

Creollus was established in 2001 in the simplest way possible. Its founder Eve Eliane having just retired from a career in medicine, created and began wearing a belt and handbag that she made from a pile of accumulated newspapers. Simply by word of mouth, the popularity of her work spread, and her artistic vision of creating beautiful, handmade fashion accessories like belts and bags, along with home décor and art pieces from recyclable and commonly discarded materials like newspaper and leather, had officially begun. Eve then received and accepted an invitation from the mayor of the city to teach these techniques at a local community college. Eventually, she came to invite some of her students, whom already had training in different techniques using different materials, as partners. This artists cooperative has been producing and selling their work in Brazil ever since.

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