Bruce Bowman, Toothpick Sculpture & Ice-cream Stick Art (Sterling, 1976).

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Balancing block by Fort Standard

Stone-sized Balancing Blocks to build structures focusing on height, speed or style. Ten salvaged hardwood game pieces finished in non-toxic white or primary colors offer a vintage look through fun contemporary forms. 

It’s our turn: Q.bi, playing with magnetic wood:

Q.bi is a unique magnet because each piece is handcrafted using woodwork cuttings. It also gives you a chance to handle wood in one of the most elementary shapes, the cube, thus rediscovering this material as a toy.
Our extraordinary product is made employing ancient techniques and natural materials. It is immediate and easy to use. Q.bi inspires your creativity: it is a brain teaser, you can use it to display your photos and notes, or just to leave a sign of your passage.
The cubes attract and repulse each other until they find their perfect composition. Choose as many cubes as you like and give shape to a number of different combinations. Have fun building new shapes and inventing new uses!

Q.bi is made exclusively with woodwork cuttings from valuable solid wood, so it encourages the intensive and ecological use of such a precious material.  

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