Tag: Chairs - Page 4
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Sancal's Natural Collection; Good Furniture Locally-Made in Spain (Photos)
Located in Murcia, south-east Spain, Sancal is one of the few furniture companies still left in the country that manufacture locally and have not taken their production elsewhere where labor is cheaper and regulations often weaker.
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Six Chairs and a Pair of Shoes at the London Design Festival
Travelling around the London Design Festival, one sees the endless interest that chairs hold for new designers.
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Berkeley, California Hair Salon Gets a Green Design Makeover (Photos)
We love a good makeover story. Especially when it comes to decorating with salvaged, upcycled, and re-used materials. This one comes from the home
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6 Great Wooden Flat-Pack Designs Spotted at Valencia Design Week (Photos)
At the Valencia Design Week I spotted quite a few new flat-pack ideas, of which a surprising number were made of wood. My favourite are Mr Simon's chairs that fold away into a table to save
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Simple Rustic, Designer Guillem Ferran Takes on IKEA
Less is more when it comes to Guillem Ferran's latest collection of furniture he is presenting this week at the Valencia Design Week. Simple Rustic consists of 4 solid wood pieces that are totally screw-less and manufactured locally in Spain. According
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Dvelas. From Boat Sails To Furniture (Photos)
Just back from Feria Habitat, the main fairground of the Valencia Design Week, I must admit I am a bit disappointed with the larger Spanish furniture companies so far and the lack of innovative good (meaning gorgeous and green) design. However, like
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Fabulously Bold, Recycled "Divine" Chairs By Kitty McBride
Vintage furniture is coming back in a big way, with furniture designers finding new ways to update old-fashioned finds. Frustrated with being unable to find an affordable vintage chair, much less one she liked, New
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Build Your Own Pallet Armchair Designed By Pierre Vedel
There are said to be two billion pallets in circulation around the world, and two/thirds of them are only used once. Designer Pierre Vedel approaches the problem by designing a complete armchair built from exactly one of the ubiquitous pallets .
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Endless Chair Goes Straight From Lineland to Spaceland, Skips Flatland
One of the winners of the top award at the International Design Festival Berlin was Endless by Dutch designer Dirk Vander Kooij. He melts down refrigerators for the plastic raw material, extrudes it into a string, and then has a robot
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Best New Sustainable Ideas From Dwell On Design in Los Angeles (Slideshow)
This slick sustainable prefab house drew crowds at the 2011 Dwell on Design. Other hits? Think solid cork stools and coffee tables, linen made of seaweed, walnut plaster and gorgeous flatpack furniture.
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A Record-Making Design Challenge That's Made in Peckham (London)
First spotted at the Clerkenwell Design Festival, Made in Peckham furniture turns out to be the work of a creative design studio called Hendzel and Hunt who take an experimental approach to their furniture design.
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New British Design Shown at Clerkenwell Design Week
Photo: B. Alter Clerkenwell Design Week is a small design festival in the ultra-cool east end of London, where lots of architects and design firms have their offices. It's a compact and easy way to see what's new in British and international
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Recovered Cardboard Shaped Into Sleek Wavy Chairs And Tables At FPD In Buenos Aires
One of such findings is
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Pratt Presents "Perpetual Motion" Furniture Designs
Students from Pratt Institute often steal the show at ICFF; two years ago you couldn't get near their booth, clearly the hit of the show. This year the work was a bit more subtle. The industrial design program partnered with
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With a Hollow Frame, A Design Invites You to Personalize Your Chair
Have you ever wished you could have more input in how your furniture looks and feels, other than selecting from a catalog? Well, if you want a chair that is truly personalized, but don't have the skill or the energy to
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Grand Designs Home Show Introduces New Green Design Heroes
Grand Designs is a massive home show covering interiors, gardens, home improvements and renovations. Its public face, Kevin McCloud, is a national treasure. A designer, developer and huge t.v. personality, he has been pushing and
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Chairs You Can Make from Your Old Magazines
When it comes to recycling, paper is one of the bigger success stories. But now designer Merryn Haines-Gadd has come up with a way to recycle paper other than throwing it in the right bin- he's made a chair. Taking the
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The SAYL Chair Really Is "The Best for the Most for the Least" (Product Review)
Office chairs are a difficult design problem. Herman Miller's classic Aeron chair has been a hit for over a decade, but it costs nearly a thousand bucks and is rarely seen
