Stuart Studio: a champagne bottle's second life, hand-cut in Lille

Stuart Studio is a small Lille workshop where design, ingenuity and a real concern for waste all sit at the same table. Its best-known piece begins somewhere unexpected: an empty champagne bottle, collected from the city's bars.

Each bottle is hand-cut into a glass reservoir that quietly waters a plant for weeks at a time - forgiving of holidays and questionable green thumbs alike. The top is 3D-printed from a corn-starch bio-material, giving soft, modern lines and, thanks to local recycling and eco-printing, a footprint close to carbon-neutral. No two are the same, by definition.

The same thinking runs through the rest: two-tier snack bowls that hold the pistachios up top and swallow the shells below, keeping the table civilised without anyone having to think about it.