Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n A surfboard split in the middle to create crab pincers<\/a>. Another that looks like an exaggerated take on a stingray<\/a>. A surfboard with a webbed bottom contour, like a duck\u2019s foot. And a fire-engine red skateboard shaped like a cartoon-like flame on wheels.<\/p>\n All of Lucas Lecacheur\u2019s surfboards and skateboards push the boundaries of accepted norms \u2013 and incredibly, they are all also functional. Beachgoers on the French holiday island \u00cele de R\u00e9, where Lecacheur grew up, have become accustomed to seeing his black leather-clad figure on the sand, holding the Brutalist<\/a> \u2013 an enormous and sharply contoured board \u2013 under his arm.<\/p>\n
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