Project CORK BOTTLES | City Cortex

City Cortex | Projeto CORK BOTTLES, by Sagmeister & Walsh

Sound pollution in public and semi-public spaces remains one of the problems in contemporary cities today.

With a sense of humour, the designers Sagmeister & Walsh tackled the issue of noise inside a restaurant by producing a series of bottle-shaped cork objects, inverting the raw material – glass is now cork and vice-versa.

These pieces absorb sound and allow for more efficiently controlled acoustics within the interior landscape.

Their flexibility is not only in the practicality of its manipulation but also in its creative potential in terms of the variety of layouts it allows for, in a short time, and its adaptability to different spaces.

This project is presented at the Museu de Arte Popular in dialogue with 17 Portuguese pieces in cork from the Museum of Ethnology’s collection, curated by the museum.