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Wine bottle's packaging transforms into beautiful lamp

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Here's an idea: instead of throwing away a product's packaging, make it suitable for re-use as another product of even greater beauty and usefulness. That's the idea behind this Cava wine bottle packaging by Spanish design firm Ciclus.

After you've guzzled all the wine from the bottle contained within, the outer layer of its package turns into this swank-looking lamp. The package even includes the fixture and bulb you'll need to complete the illuminating metamorphosis.

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Cool lamp. But why does a wine bottle need a box??? (This is not what "boxed wine" refers to, either, LOL.)...More »


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By LukeWestra at 6:57 PM ON 12/10/08

This is very cool and a great way to reduce the waste footprint of product packaging. In the same spirit as the POM brand tea bottles that actually doubled as glasses when you were finished with them:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/76/190473958_93306acd15.jpg?v=0

By Ashley McFarland at 10:05 PM ON 12/10/08

Brilliant! Especially when the packaging becomes something truly useful and beautiful. What a gorgeous lamp in the end!!!

By ribex at 11:24 PM ON 12/10/08

Cool lamp. But why does a wine bottle need a box??? (This is not what "boxed wine" refers to, either, LOL.)


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