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Optical chandelier by Stuart Haygarth

Stuart Haygarth has sent us a new photo of Optical, a chandelier made of lenses from unwanted prescription spectacles.

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The 1.5m diameter chandelier, which contains 3,000 lenses, was premiered at the Trash Luxe exhibition at Liberty in London last month.

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Haygarth gets the lenses from from a charity that ships used spectacles to the developing world.

More photos from Trash Luxe in our earlier story.

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