Julia Lohmann's work is truly ingenious. After spotting her in the NY times magazine design issue I was amazed at the way she embodies the conflict of loving animals while eating meat through design. She constructs furniture inspired by the "transition of an animal to the product". Her work consists of lamps created from sheep and cow stomaches as well as benches made from a cast of a cows internal cavity and draped in the hide to resemble the animal once its completed. She is highly controversial, even in her home base of England, a country that prides itself on initiating the nose-to- tail cooking movement. What makes her work so endearing is that she is inspired by her love of animals in that her way of paying homage to the animal would be to utilize every part of it.
http://www.julialohmann.co.uk/
