Depression Chic: Furniture Inspired by Boarded Up Houses
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 01. 8.09
Here is a look that should do well in America: Stockholm designer Katarina Hall designs "Save"- furniture inspired by abandoned houses and boarded up doors and windows.
She writes:
Save is furniture with inspiration sprung from abandoned and forgotten houses. With their barred and bolted doors and windows, they reveal nothing about the stories and treasures that lure inside.
Now if she shopped for parts at a Habitat for Humanity or deconstruction store, that would really be something. Here are some references:
Big Steps in Building: Deconstruct, Don't Demolish
Deconstruction and the Rebuilding Center
Or many designers have built from actual scrap:
Trashformaciones Furniture and Instalations
Nine Stories Makes Furniture From Car Panels
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"Depression chic"? Probably not the best way to market the furniture, but I do like the look of it all.