It's all natural, renewable, healthy and has zero embodied carbon. What's not to love? When speaking recently at a Passivhaus conference in Aveiro, Portugal, I mentioned one of my favourite subjects, ...

You probably know how much we love making bags on this show, and today won’t be much different, because when Ashley was in Portugal, she discovered a whole new world of material she had never ...

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “cork”? Chances are, your mind wandered to that bottle of crisp Chardonnay sitting in your fridge, and for good reason. Capitalizing on cork’s porous ...

Cork, the humble material used for centuries to seal bottles, is a unique product not only for the way it's grown, but also for the plethora of inventive uses people have found for it — which go far ...

There’s a reason the screw cap hasn’t dominated the wine stopper industry: Cork still kicks the ass of stamped aluminum for the good stuff-and not just for nostalgia’s sake. This is what keeps our ...

If you are involved in the creative community, you will have noticed the slowly-but-surely growing preponderance of cork as a material used in design. Just in the past few months, my boyfriend bought ...

Cork is a unique material characterized by its porous texture, softness, and lightweight quality. Historically, architects from Frank Lloyd Wright to Eliel Saarinen to Alvar Aalto to William Massie ...

York, the outer bark of the cork oak tree, is a wonderful material. More than half of the world’s cork comes from Portugal, where cork is harvested from a tree about every 10 years. Many cork trees ...

It didn't win the Stirling Prize, but cleans up on all the sustainability awards. I have called cork the perfect building material: completely natural, insulating ...