Tag: Chairs - Page 11
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PVC Advertising Banners as Shower Curtains, Puffs, Cushions, by Reprint
It all began with Freitag, a Swiss brand that came up with the idea of using tarps from trucks to create messenger bags. After that, it was only a matter of time before more designers saw the potential in large PVC canvases from
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Skate Chair, Window-Metal Table + More: Reclaimed and Sustainable Furniture by 2Z
These pieces of furniture are the work of Brazilian designer Zanini de Zanine Caldas, who uses reclaimed and sustainable materials to build modern, hip pieces folloring the steps of father Jose Zanine Caldas, a prominent architect
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10 Coolest Multifunctional Furniture Designs (Slideshow)
Transformer furniture is a TreeHugger favorite, from an entire apartment in a box to a dual table equally at home for coffee or dining and beds that hide in the ceiling. Check out a slideshow of some of the coolest multifunctional furniture designs out
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10 Coolest Multifunctional Furniture Designs
It doesn't look like it, but hiding in this box are an armoire, a desk, a height-adjustable stool, two more stools, a six-shelf bookcase, and a bed with a mattress. Casulo is a brilliant transforming furnishing system that fits an entire apartment's worth
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Make Your Own Cardboard Furniture
The Ponoko blog has a good roundup of incredible cardboard furniture, much of it from a collective of cardboard furniture makers in France known as Les Cartonnistes.
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Transformer Clothing: C.P. Company's Coat Turns into Armchair
Justin Gargasz needs one of these to wear along with his Vessel Jacket: A raincoat that turns into an armchair. The writer at Found_NYC has the one shown above, from 2002. It was produced by Italian clothier C.P. Company and designed by by Moreno
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Lepidoptera Chair is Made From Car Upholstery Remnants
Australian designer Simone LeAmon a fascination with "machismo of moto culture." She makes the Lepidoptera chair from textile remnants from Autofab, an Australian automotive textile manufacturer.
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Where Memory Used To Sit by Guillem Ferran
We love it when furniture can be adapted to different functions, like Catalan designer Guillem Ferran’s chair ‘Distendido’ that turns into a laundry rack. We also love it when design brings back traditional values and adds innovation to a
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Beautiful Refurbished Vintage Furniture by Livin' Pop
You know how much we love vintage, one of the simplest ways of being green (by making use of what's already made). As we've showed before with Raval Warehouse, if that vintage looks modern and polished, what more can you ask?
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Relief Chair by Ben Mickus: Part of Felt Exhibition at Cooper Hewitt
Most chairs are upholstered in foam, which can be treated with fire retardants and difficult to recycle. Ben Mickus designed the Relief Chair as part of a collection that uses "digital fabrication and solid, rapidly renewable materials. Upholstery,
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Old Mattresses Make Recycled Chairs
"Hot or not?" is how one blog started and we have to agree... Apartment Therapy took a vote and 21 thought it was hot whilst 391 did not. Where to start.
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Pulp: This Is Hardcore Furniture (Slideshow)
From Shigeru Ban and Frank Gehry in the sixties and seventies 'til now, architects and designers have played with paper and cardboard as a cheap, easy to work with material. It's not the most durable thing going, but right now nobody wants it for
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Can Stretch Fabric Be Compostable? Rohner Textil Think So
Last year we were approached by a designer wanting to develop a line of sustainable swimwear. We observed that one very tricky element would be doing away with the stretch element: elastane or spandex, what most of us more
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10 Green Furniture Highlights From IMM Cologne (Slideshow)
Photo courtesy of Draenert In the design industry, there are a few big furniture fairs that make waves around the world, places where the most cutting-edge green furniture debuts. The biggest fair in Europe is the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, held
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Sex Sells, So Does it Sell Sustainable Chairs?
One thing you've got to like about Norway's Variér, which is now distributing its upscale, design-them-yourself chairs in the U.S. and around the world: they don't claim to be deep green and question any companies with industrial,
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Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation (Slideshow)
"It can be applied to many human endeavours, denoting a principle of action having speed or economy and
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Transformer Furniture: The Execuchair Folds Out to a Bed
And we thought Transformer furniture was a new idea; here is an "executive" chair that would fit right into the set on Mad Men and no doubt could be easily worked into the plot. Upholstered in Naugahyde, before Naugas were endangered. NEW EXECU-CHAIR
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Naked Chair Exposes Everything
"Naked is an extremely lightweight chair that uses its structure as its aesthetic." And, like so much of the world, it is held together by wingnuts. The strength of this chair is due to action-reaction forces between the folded steel sheets and beech
