Bicycling may be the healthiest way to commute around town, but eventually those bike tires reach the end of their life. Two designers worked together to incorporate bicycle tires into a clothing store’s updated design.
Glore, a sustainable clothing retailer in Stuttgart, Germany, has made old bikes look cool while recycling them into a new life. Working with Nuremberg-based designer
Marcos Aretio (who is originally from Madrid), and local
Udo Kloos, Glore now has new displays that includes other old “junk” in addition to the salvaged bicycles.
Boxes collected from around the city now comprise the ceiling, and offer an appearance of illuminated cubes. Old supermarket crates are now shelves. And now hangars drape garments from the bicycle tires.
The designers’ studios,
Neeos Design and
Markmus Design, are well worth exploring.
garments hanging from a ceiling rack, Glore Store, Stuttgart
Glore's new updated look
boxes turned into ceiling lighting installation, Glore
