Converting Abandoned Homes into Eyewear

"For Achille Bianchi, it all started with a pair of sunglasses," according to a story on Yahoo! Finance. "He got the wood from a friend's boatyard. He'd been messing around in the woodshop of OmniCorpDetroit, a collective of entrepreneurs, artists and others that operates out of a 800,000 square-foot building in Detroit's Eastern Market. Using a laser cutter in the OmniCorp makerspace, he made his first pair out of the boat wood. He made his second with wood from charred remains of Detroit's former Imagination Station, which burned down in 2012. Bianchi then got the idea to make more sunglasses out of ruined homes in Detroit, and Homes Eyewear was born." Read more.