Tag: Chairs - Page 12
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Vintage Furniture Revamp Ideas from Raval Warehouse
One of the basics of green living is reducing waste, and one of the best ways to go green when thinking about furniture is buying vintage. Of course vintage is not always attractive and sometimes it's hard to make it look
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PUUR Magic Chair Stacks Up
Dripta Roy of Puur designs makes the perfect chair for mama, papa and a couple of baby bears- a set of chairs that fit together to take up less space when you are alone...
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Alexander Pelikan's Flatpack Downloadable Chairs
We love downloadable designs. Why move material when we are interested in ideas, creativity and talent? Dutch designer Alexander Pelican does too. He designs modernist furniture inspired by Reitveld and
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Build Your Own Crystal Furniture
When I was a kid I was given a copy of Crystals and Crystal Growing and spent weeks cooking sugar and salt and everything I could find in my chemistry set to make lovely crystals. When my son was of an impressionable age I bought an updated copy of the
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STACK Furniture STUCK with VELCRO
It is really quite clever, if not comfortable; a single U-shaped piece can be linked to other identical pieces with industrial-strength Velcro to make all kinds of combinations. STACK is a modular furniture system that is reduced to just one element.
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Trees Have Rights Too, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, and More...
Inhabitat: 2008 Green Holiday Gift Guide by Inhabitat Team In their inimitably stylish way the Inhabitat team have put together a very desirable gift guide to help us buy eco-friendly presents for all the family this year. They've included suggestions
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What the World Needs Now Is Square Trees
Belgian design collective Draw Me A Sheep notes: 'Round' is perfect in nature, but 'square' is perfect for industrial standard. To illustrate, square tree would enable wood industry to lose less material, to cut easier with machines and to
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Martino Gamper Brilliantly Reinterprets Classic Carlo Mollino Chairs
Martino Gamper is surely the king of chair recycling with innovative projects such as 100 Chairs in 100 Days, that recently won a Brit Insurance Design of The Year Award. Last month at the Frieze art fair in London Gamper displayed his latest adventure
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So Many Greens: GreenBuild, Green Design Furniture, Douglas Green
Douglas Green has been building furniture in Portland, Maine since 1993 under the name Green Design, and he has been living up to his name when it comes to the way he designs and builds.
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The Chair That Has Seated Millions
We often talk about the importance of good design in building a sustainable society, and have fewer better examples than the Thonet Chair. It is just six pieces of wood-two circles, two sticks and a couple of arches - held together by 10 screws and two
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Odds & Ends from Jo Meesters
Charles Jencks called it Adhocism: "the art of living and doing things ad hoc- using materials at hand, rather than waiting for the perfect moment or "proper" approach. As a principle of design, it begins with everyday improvisations, such as bottles
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Cardboard Office by Paul Coudamy
Parisian designer Paul Coudamy thinks outside the box with this interior for advertising agency Beast, made almost entirely out of 40 mm (1-1/2") thick honeycomb cardboard. Sabine at MocoLoco tells us that they had a one month timeline and a limited
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A Future for Recycled Oil Drums
Furniture made out of recycled materials is hardly new to TreeHugger. But here is a French designer's collection that includes tables, chairs, barbeques, shelves and lights--all made from recycled oil drums. Starting with your basic dented and rusted
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Working From Home Makes More Sense Than Ever
In these difficult times a lot of people are working from home, whether they want to or not. A lot of others would like to, but employers have not been crazy about it, even though it can cut overhead as well as
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Recycling Broken Skateboard Decks into Furniture
We have shown Le Corbusier recliners and staircases made from skateboard decks, but they have been made from new decks repurposed rather than recycled broken decks. Philadelphia industrial designer Jason Podlaski's brother kept breaking them and Jason
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New Designs For Cork and Recycled Plastic
Young designers are using new materials in innovative ways and the Royal College of Art show is a good place to check them out. Yemi Awosile is fascinated with cork, one of the great ecological materials--it is a natural material that can be renewably
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London Design Festival: Chairs Galore
We can't leave the London Design Festival behind until we have a survey of some of the wild and wacky chairs that people have created. Designing a comfortable and good looking chair is much harder than it looks and is a mark of a good designer. Then
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At London Design Festival, the Thonet Project
Thonet chairs are the classic and quintessential french cafe chair. We have been looking at them in french films, paintings and restaurants forever. Particularly the No.14--it was created in 1862, and by 1930 almost 50 million had been sold. Le
