Tag: Chairs - Page 15
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Studio Lo: Flat Pack Fun from France
How smart is this? Yep, that's a whole chair, from a single flat piece of wood, without any left over. It's the work of the France-based Studio Lo, who have a thing for the suave simplicity of flat-pack designs. Wood isn't their only medium either, as
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Clevr: Balkony, the Modular Sitting/Eating/Growing Furniture System
Stuck with a tiny balcony? Looking for a smart way to maximize space? Look no further than the design by Christian Lessing, whose modular furniture system adds clever multi-tasking to a previously useless (or less used) space. It's got modules for
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Gomi-style Gehry Chair Knockoff
"At Gomi style, it is better to reuse and keep material out of the waste stream altogether" So Marque Cornblatt says as his Gomi-style makeover team knock off Frank Gehry with a cardboard chair design. (Gomi, as William Gibson coined it, "is a Japanese
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Yael Mer: Keeps us Rockin' in the Free World
It's our first winter living in Jerusalem and we thought that the frosty days we've been having is because we are high in the mountains. Not so. Israel is passing through an unbelievably cold, cold-spell. Pipes are bursting in people's homes all over
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Blindstool from Castor Canadensis
We have always loved the humor and art from Castor Canadensis, whether it was the prefab sauna , the recycled tube light, their ultimate flatpack, and my favourite, their demonstration of the power of the compact flourescent.
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A Different Kind of Stacking Chair from Jun Murakoshi
TreeHugger loves stackable chairs -- and we've seen some good ones, from stackable versions of classic designs, to one made from recycled car parts, to a couple inspired by a tree trunk -- since they help us get stuff up and out of the way when not in
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TreeHugger Picks: Smart Packaging Design
Often, we see poor examples of packaging design that lead to more junk for us to deal with and more waste in the landfill. In the spirit of taking your own bags to the grocery store, here are some picks for packaging that does a more than just wrap up
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Clevr: Olivia Folding/Hanging Chair
TreeHugger loves when design just makes good sense. Take "Olivia," this folding chair from reestore, for example: folding chairs, as the name suggests, fold up and flatten to save space when not in use; to get them out of the way, why not make it easy
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Uncorking Design: DWR's 2008 Champagne Chair Contest
With one big holiday squarely in our rear view (no, not that kind of rear view), we can turn our attention to recycling (or re-planting. Or, heck, just folding up) our Christmas trees and preparing to close the book on 2007. And you know what that
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Wayback Machine: 1957 Transformer High Chair
We love transformer furniture that serves multiple functions or adapts, like the Stokke Tripp Trap Chair or the nest high chair. Back in 1957 Eddie Peyton figured out how to transform a stroller into a high chair. Just don't put your arm in the wrong
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It Slices, It Dices: LuÃs Porém's Inverso Chair
Rock 'n roll, or sit tight? The choice is yours with the dual-functioning Inverso chair by Portuguese designer Luís Porém. Set up one way, it's a gentle rocking chair; flip it over and you've got a sturdy side chair. It's a really sleek, smart design;
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Waste Not, Want Not: Non-Woven by Christian Kocx
Taking unwanted bits of plastic from an injection molding machine, Dutch designer Christian Kocx has created "Non-Woven," a small collection of ultra-modern furniture, lighting and accessories. Originally presented during the furniture fair in Milan in
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It Slices, It Dices: Perfect Perch; Portable, Cheap, Lightweight, Green Seating
22 year-old student designer James Chu set out to design and create "portable, cheap, lightweight and eco-friendly furniture," and the result is Perfect Perch: a modular, multi-functional, cardboard chair. According to the site, "The initial challenge
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Transformer Furniture: Stonewall Kitchen's Chair/Ladder
Ever have trouble reaching the top cabinets in your kitchen? Tired of shoe-prints on your dining chairs? Stonewall Kitchen's "Folding Chair Ladder" is here to help, doing double duty as (you guessed it) a chair and a ladder.
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It Slices, It Dices: Chair777, To Sit, Lounge & Relax
Between its materials and multi-functional design, die fabrik's Chair777 is not your normal chair. It's made from cardboard, a material that has proven time and again that it's not just for boxes anymore, and might go quite nicely with the designers'
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All Eyes on the 2pac Chair by rawstudio
Made from two flat-pack pieces, the 2pac (get it?) chair is made from FSC-certified birch plywood by UK-based designers rawstudio. Brilliantly simple, with only two shapes and four pieces, it requires no hardware for assembly -- just snap it together
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Cohda Designs' Live Factory: Plastic Becomes Design Before Your Eyes
The guys at Cohda (remember their awesome RD4 chair?) have always had a pretty unique vision of what "recycled" means; this is clear when you look at the designs they create from materials that are usually destined to be milk bottles, or are former
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BuyGreen: Office & Desk Chairs
Anyone that sits at a desk or in a chair for part or all of their work knows that what you sit in really matters. Not only does it affect how comfortable and productive you are, but poor seating can have some pretty negative long-term health effects,
