布鲁克林的艺术认识丹妮尔-特罗芙设计公司
Danielle Trofe 可能是一名设计师，但她会第一个告诉你，她在布鲁克林工业城的工作室里做的是科学。
At 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge our design embraces local community, the history of our neighborhood, and our natural surroundings. In this series, we go behind-the-scenes with Brooklyn-based artists featured throughout the hotel, and their creations which bring our design ethos to life.
Danielle Trofe 可能是一名设计师，但她会第一个告诉你，她在布鲁克林工业城的工作室里做的是科学。
不要被这个词所迷惑，特洛芙和她的团队并不是穿着白大褂往烧杯里倒化学品。实际上恰恰相反。特洛芙将自己的工作描述为生物设计，她利用材料科学（如：植物、生物体、环境）为日常用品进行创新设计，使其更加贴近我们周围的自然世界。
好吧，但这究竟意味着什么呢？这意味着 Trofe 为Brooklyn Bridge 1 Hotel 用蘑菇制作了 100 多个（漂亮的！）灯罩。
Yes, you read that right. Here’s how it works: Trofe collects agricultural waste (chopped-up corn stalks, seed husks, and hemp) from upstate New York and inoculates it with mushroom mycelium. Mycelium is, essentially, nature’s glue—it’s the mushroom root structure (we eat the fruit structure), and its tiny threads connect plants and organisms together underground. So, this means that, once Trofe packs the mycelium-injected mulch into custom molds, all she has to do is just leave it alone for a few days for the lampshade (or planter, or other object) to grow. Grow! Once it looks the way she wants, she lets it dry out and then bakes it in an oven in order to stop the growth, which guarantees that your lamp won’t be sprouting any mushrooms.
不用说，我们Brooklyn Bridge 1 Hotel 的团队一发现 Trofe 的作品，就知道我们必须委托她制作一些作品。她的作品不仅完全可持续、可再生，而且完全天然、可生物降解。有朝一日，灯罩用完后，可以切碎放入堆肥中，回归自然。
哦，如果你想知道的话：虽然 Trofe 不建议你这么做，我们也希望你不要这么做，但理论上你是可以吃灯罩的。
欲了解布鲁克林艺术家 Danielle Trofe 的更多信息，请访问她的网站。
Read our previous posts in The Art of Brooklyn series, featuring Rachel Mica Weiss and Jarrod Beck.
