Cork’s artistic possibilities were recently amped up at Design Miami, where Bohinc Studio chose the material for Utopia, its colourful cloud-like installation. On a slightly more pragmatic note, Made in Situ‘s Burnt Cork collection by Noé Duchaufour Lawrance crafts poetic forms as functional furnishings, like a shapely lounge chair and a sculptural table. Designed as a tribute to Portuguese cork, the collection plays up all of the aesthetic qualities, from “calcined bark to fine grain, from rawness to fluid curves.”