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Hydro Wall by Jacob Resneck

Next Generation Design Competition sponsored by Metropolis Magazine. San Fratello's proposal will be featured at the Metropolis booth at the upcoming International Contemporary Furniture Fair, 20-23 May 2006, in New York, as part of the magazine's 2006 Next Generation Design Competition exhibit and in the June issue of their magazine. Metropolis offers the $10,000 prize each year (meant to be seed money for realizing the winning project) to designers developing sustainable and environmentally-sound technologies.

See more renderings of her work after the jump.

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