Latest Stories in Interior Design - Page 12
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Elegant Lightform Shades Use Digital Technique To Make Every Piece Unique
Digital design and fabrication makes things possible that could only be dreamt of earlier. Dwell shows a lampshade that is not only designed using computers, but students at Ball State's Institute for Digital Fabrication wrote a program that modifies
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Stainless Steel Solar Lantern Is Fancy, But We Have Something Even Better
Oasis has put out a beautiful solar powered lantern. It's stainless steel, has high and low settings, and can charge up via sunlight - though it takes 12-24 hours of light to get a full battery. The lantern sports 12 LEDs and can
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OLED Chandelier Brings a New Level of Fancy to Homes
The 2010 LightFair International is rich with innovative lighting, but one item of particular interest is this OLED Chandelier for luxury homes, a Responsible Lighting product from W.A.C. Lighting. Called SOL, the company says it
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Cooler Than A Cubicle: The Clipper, a Cockpit Style Worstation
Shedworking Alex at Shedworking reminds us of the Clipper CS1, a sort of office shed for CAD workers of the early nineties. The normal office environment didn't work very well for CAD monitors because of all the reflections in the screens, so Canadian
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Living Walls go Mainstream, Hit the Homes Sections
Kristina Shevory writes in the New York Times that living walls are becoming increasingly popular in homes. "Avid and aspiring gardeners, frustrated with little outdoor space, are
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Living With Less: Home Office Folds Up into Suitcase
At some point, people who work at home should be able to put their office out of sight, out of mind. Japanese designer Toshihiko Hazama has designed a slick aluminum office-in-a-suitcase that folds and locks up neatly to only 52 cm (20.4") thick.
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What A Difference Design Makes: Ross Lovegrove Reinvents The Sun Tunnel
TreeHugger has been showing light tunnels or solar tubes for years; they are one of those great ideas for bringing natural light into interior spaces, part of the comeback of daylighting.
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How Do You Get Natural Light Deep Into a Loft?
A reader writes: I have a loft with a southern exposure and only 2 1/2 windows, it is a long space extending back from the windows and the area farthest away can get quite dark, especially if the sun isn't shining. What can I do to get natural light
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Bike-Powered Lamp by Gionata Gatto
One of our favourite places at this year's Milan furniture fair was definitely the Gallery Rossana Orlandi, a truly magical place. It is there, alongside FormaFantsama, that we discovered the Bike Lamp by Gionata Gatto,
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Turn Your Froot Loops Into Furniture With The Sustainable Slotted System
Sometimes you just need a little visual privacy in your space. TreeHugger been showing the Molo Softwall since, I think, my earliest posts on TreeHugger. At Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, students were asked
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Green LED Could Mean a Lighting Revolution
Red light emitting diodes were easy, and have been around for a while. Blue LEDs were harder; Shuji Nakamura won the million euro Millenium Technology Prize for figuring them out.
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Ask Pablo: How Bad Is Memory Foam?
Dear Pablo: How bad is memory foam for the planet and human health?
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Smart Lighting? Software-Controlled Networked LED Lights Save Tons of Power
Photo: Digital Lumens A Bright Idea for the Lighting Industry According to the US Department of Energy, lighting represents about 12% of energy consumption for residential buildings and 25% for commercial ones (presumably because commercial buildings
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Sweet! Sugar Cane Waste and Recycled Cardboard Become Flatpack Freefold Furniture
Freefold Furniture is, as the above video indicates, a versatile shelving system. But the system can also serves as partition, screen, plinth or bench. Made of Xanita X-board (more below), which is 97% post consumer waste paper, the Freefold system
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60.5 SF APT, No Vw, Knightsbridge, £200,000.
For those that care, that is $5,061 per square foot of prime Knightsbridge real estate. And according to the Mirror, owner Ray Barker says it's perfect for his needs. He says: "I can do the cleaning while lying in my sofa bed. In fact, I
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ArmorLite CFL Keeps Mercury Inside Protective Coating if Bulb Breaks
Photo: ClearLiteSafer CFLs: Why Didn't Someone Think of This Sooner?By now just, about everybody knows that compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) contain some mercury (about 5 milligrams). It's still less mercury than would be emitted by a coal plant
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LED Street-Lights are Greenest Choice, Life-Cycle Study Shows
Image: Knossos Induction Lights Are Close, But No Cigar Most people who have been following lighting tech seem to be convinced that light-emitting diode (LED) lights are the future, but it's always good to see new research being done on them. The more
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Switch Me! And Feel The Pain Of Our Planet
That is what French designer Josselin Zaïgouche says about his novel, if unusual, way to reduce power consumption. Designboom calls it "an attempt to denounce our society's over-consumption and wasteful habits." 'Switch me!'
