Darja Malešičs exhibitions of products are a traditional feature of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK. This year, she displayed wonderful drinking bottles in wickerwork holders. These rigorously follow the principles of a circular economy: local, renewable materials, the production of which results in a net reduction of CO2 levels, the use of waste products such as corn and rye straw, long-lasting wicker holders from hazel and willow, (which, if properly treated, last for 20 to 30 years!), easily reparable due to modular product design, and compostable at the end of their lives. The sustainable holder enables the water bottle to become a prestige product, which consumers can use on a daily basis and for many years. The elegant design solutions, which also provide a very robust protection for glass bottles, could be admired on the first floor of the Festival Headquarters in the Amtshaus Theresienbadgasse.

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