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Stunning Reclaimed Furniture with Deep Southern Roots

by Jacob Gordon, Nashville, TN on 11.12.09
Design & Architecture

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Furniture made from reclaimed wood, whether it be from the wild or from a collapsing warehouse, expresses the human and natural history of the region it was plucked from. Last week I wrote about Urban Woods, an LA-based furniture shop whose materials reflect the unique environs of California. This week, Garden & Gun (one of my favorite southern magazines) turned me on to Turning House Furniture, a Virginia-based company building impeccable pieces with wood reclaimed from such quintessentially southern structures as an R.J Reynolds tobacco warehouse in North Carolina and the Rip Van Winkle bourbon factory in Kentucky.

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When Given the Chance, Will Consumers Pay More for Green?

by Tom Szaky of TerraCycle, Trenton NJ on 11. 4.09
Design & Architecture

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Image courtesty of TerraCycle

We just began an interesting experiment at TerraCycle: Opening our first retail outlet and giving people a place to bring in what they'd normally mail to us as part of our collection Brigades. But that's not the most interesting part. We've decided to see what people will do when given the chance to pay whatever price they want for products.

In this economy, will people intentionally undercut the price? Will they, unaware of what we really charge, which, whenever possible, is the same or lower then comparable non-green products, actually overpay for their purchase? Or, might they, knowing we're a company working hard to make as sustainable a product as possible, make a point to pay more as a show of support?

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Way Basics Offers 20% Off All Furniture Products

by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island on 06.18.09
Design & Architecture

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A few days ago we covered Way Basics, a company that has invented simple, basic furniture that is practical and versatile. The Way Basics line of modular furniture is made from the company’s signature zBoards, a super-durable board made from post-consumer recycled paper that weighs much less than particle board. Each zBoard comes equipped with 3M double-sided tape, eliminating the need for tools or hardware and making assembly as easy as peel, stick, done.

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BoB, the Eco Clothes Hanger Made from Cardboard and Reused Water Bottles

by Petz Scholtus, Barcelona, Spain on 02. 5.09
Design & Architecture

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Designer Joan Nadal took on the challenge to re-design one of the most common everyday objects: the humble clothes hanger. A small object with a large environmental footprint if we consider that of the 8 billion polystyrene or polycarbonate hangers manufactured per year, only 15% are recycled. That is enough to fill the Empire State Building 4 times! The solution: make recyclable hanger from just one material, and if you can, recycle something along the way. BoB Hanger does exactly that: it’s made from recycled cardboard and needs two reused bottles to function.

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It Slices, It Dices: Bookseat -- Take a Seat, Read a Book

by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 03. 3.08
Design & Architecture

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The idea of combining a chair and a bookshelf makes a lot of sense to us; since we spend most (if not all) of our reading time seated, it follows that we should have ready access to our reading material. We've seen a few of these ideas before -- check out the geometric Bibliochaise and multi-functional Bookinist, which includes a reading lamp, cup holder, and even a wheel for easy moving -- and now add Bookseat, from Toronto-based Fishbol Design Atelier, to the growing list.

Noted as one of the "Ten Must-Sees" at the recent Toronto Interior Design Show 2008, Bookseat combines suavely-bent plywood with smart use of space to create an elegant, useful piece. It'll be available with a felt cushion in customizable colors sometime this spring. Hit the jump to see the chair in various stages of production and at the show. ::Fishbol Design Atelier via ::Design Spotter

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Sneak Peek: Ryan Frank's New Design For Milan 2008

by Leonora Oppenheim, London, UK on 02.29.08
Design & Architecture

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Our favourite 'free-range' designer Ryan Frank has been honoured with a special invitation to this year's Salone del Mobile in Milan. The world famous gallery Post Design, which has exhibited luminaries such as Ettore Sottsass and Ron Arad, has commissioned Frank to create a piece of furniture for the fair in April. Frank's response is Zig (pictured above). This funky modular shelving unit is made from solid bamboo, stained with natural colour, and has large castor wheels to make it easily mobile. The image above shows four units linked together to create a continuous storage system. Click over the fold to see a single Zig. We think it's fantastic that a gallery, with a design heritage as rich as the Memphis brand, is choosing to commission contemporary designers, like Ryan Frank, who push eco-design in new and exciting directions.

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It Slices, It Dices: Ex Libris Bookshelf and Table In One

by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 02. 8.08
Design & Architecture

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Taking inspiration from its own Ptolomeo and Ptolomeo Wall book shelf designs (pictures below the fold), the Italian designers at MOCO have applied the same space-saving, hidden shelving ethic to "Ex Libris," the table whose legs double as book storage. A great companion to Bookinist and Bibliochaise -- two chairs with a similar goal of combining seating and storage -- Ex Libris was unveiled last month at Maison & Objet in France.

We'll add this to the list of best small space shelving solutions. And it might just be the smartest table we've ever seen. ::MOCO via ::Freshome and ::Trendhunter

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Best Small Space Shelving Solutions

by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 02. 5.08
Design & Architecture

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No matter how small you live, and how much clutter you can live without, storage is one thing it's always easy to run short on. The good people of Apartment Therapy have looked in corners, stairways, closets and even doorways to find the hidden places to stash books and other stackables we need to keep around. Their 8 best small space shelving solutions include the wrap-around ceiling shown above, plus a few more than include space efficiency tricks like floating and folding. They're great ways to get the most out of whatever space you have; hit the jump for pics of our favorites. ::Apartment Therapy

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