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October 01, 2008

Beautiful Japanese lamps made out of recycled material

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The Tokyo American Club has these awesome lamps by artist Shoichi Sakurai. He and his American wife make beautiful lamps and other furniture using recycled materials, like the breastplate of broken Edo period armor and old rusty pipes.

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88 of his creations will be sold at auction for the Re-Art Charity Project in November.

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Neato! Were in the club did you see one?

Just got back to Japan, so haven't explored the new location much yet...

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