Welcome!

Bamboo DNA was founded by artist and designer Gerard Minakawa and is based in Southern California. The company specializes in contemporary bamboo architectural and sculptural applications.

If you follow our progress here and on Facebook or Vimeo, you'll see a wide variety of creative projects by Minakawa as well as many other innovative designers. Enjoy!

2011 was a great year, which included such memorable moments as the alien Bugaboos crash-landing in the Coachella fields and some incredible aerial acrobatics in Las Vegas...

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What IS that??? A Bugaboo, of course, visiting us from another planet! See the Bugaboo website here and watch where this one and his friends are going in 2012!  
   
   
 
 
 
 
 
Did you know?
 
Bamboo is not wood; it is the largest grass species worldwide!
 
ABOVE: "Long Hands", an alien Bugaboo
Materials: Bamboo, Steel, wood
Design: Gerard Minakawa
Coachella Music Festival- 2011