Using the results of a NASA experiment,—where spiders are put under the influence of certain psychoactive substances—French designer Guillaume Lehoux has designed a series of bowls that replicates the webs spun by the drugged up spiders.
As the substances affect the spiders’ abilities and behaviors, the webs they weave when under the influence of each feature patterns that are not seen in nature.
For instance, marijuana affects the concentration of the spider, which results in it being incapable of completing its web.
Moulded with thick leather wires, the bowls feature random but beautiful patterns and are actually functional—they are able to hold fruits, keys and other small objects.
These bowls are a great example of how science and art can meet to product objects that are not only pleasing to the eye but useful as well.
[via Guillaume Lehoux]