Tag: Chairs - Page 5
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Got a Tiny Home? Decorate With Fold-Out Furniture (Video)
Christy Oates will never be IKEA, but hopefully IKEA, which seems to concentrate much more these days on selling us stuff that we don't need rather than designing what we really do, will take some insipiration
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The Hangers in Your Closet Could Make You a Surprisingly Comfortable Chair
We've seen a lot of chairs made from interesting, unexpected materials: coffee grounds, window blinds, even oil drums. As time goes on, it becomes clear that rather than exhausting the possibilities, these works'
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10 Stackable Chairs for a Tiny Urban Space: Comments, Suggestions? (Slideshow)
When your space is limited and you like to have a party every so often, every chair counts.
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10 Stackable Chairs for a Tiny Urban Space: Comments, Suggestions?
When your space is limited and you like to have a party every so often, every chair counts. That's why TreeHugger founder Graham Hill plans to choose his chairs -- for the small New York apartment he is remodeling and revamping in order to live a LifeE
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Get Up Esparto, the Biodegradable Seat that Stands Up By Itself
Here are some funky seats for small spaces; when not in use, they stand up to occupy less space! Get Up Esparto is a series of chairs to hang out on and relax, with the peculiarity that they stand up by themselves when you are
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Get Out of My Seats! A Remarkable Design Turns One Chair Into Three (Video)
One chair, two chairs, three chairs more. That might be what French designer Paul Menand was thinking as he designed the Triplette Chair, three chairs built into one. We've seen a lot of interesting stackable chairs, but
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Stand And Deliver Yourself Better Health
Standing Desks are a particular hobby horse of our Design and Architecture editor, Lloyd. So we imagine he'll be pleased to learn that the National Heart Foundation in
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High Chair: A Lounger Made of Hemp for Stylish Stoners
From our friends at Fast Company, "bridging the fuzzy border between design and business." Potheads: The time has come to throw out your beanbags, your Boca Lounger, your couch covered in a grimy tie-dye tapestry you bought on Telegraph 15 years ago.
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Quirky Chairs Adapted for the Ageing and Elderly
We don't talk much about ageing at TreeHugger, but most everyone has a grandparent or parent who is coping with ways of living with old age.
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Jens Risom's Classic Furniture from the '50's is Re-Issued
Here's another classic chair that fell out of fashion and now, happily, is back.
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Chairs Looking Like Corpses by Karen Ryan
Karen Ryan is an English artist and furniture maker whose work hasn't been seen in a while. Last noted at the London Design Festival in 2007, she is back now with a series of chairs pieced together
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Furniture Outstanding in the Brit Insurance Design Awards
The Brit Insurance Design Awards are a showcase for the best international design. Now in its fourth year, there are over one hundred fabulous projects nominated. These will be narrowed down to one big winner,
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The T-shirt Chair by Maria Westerberg Wins the 2011 Green Furniture Award in Sweden (Photos)
Swedish designer Maria Westerberg's T-shirt Chair won this year's Green Furniture Award. According to the jury, "the chair weaves together a meaningful story using worn textiles. This up-scaling of the classical
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Emiliano Godoy Teams Up with Ecoist for Cool Candy Wrapper Chair (Photos)
A great discovery over at designboom this week is a new design from Emiliano Godoy, one of our favourite thought provoking designers. Emiliano, he of the biodegradable golf tee and the Global Warming Rug, has teamed up with
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Made from a Single Piece of Plywood, This Chair Redefines Simplicity
At the Meet My Project design exposition in Paris this week, simplicity was a major theme: boiling down products to their basics to get the most out of the materials used to make them. That's especially true of the work presented by
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Discarded Cement Sacks Make For A Great Looking Monobloc Chair In Mexico
Felix, the chair in the picture above, is an experiment by Mexican studio Talco --whose wooden crates wall we featured last week; for a series of furniture made from waste from construction.
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Transformer Sofa Is Made From 8,000 Chopsticks
Designer yuya ushida built this transformer sofa, that extends from chair width to full three person sofa, out of eight thousand chopsticks, cut into four lengths and fastened with rings and joints. It took him three
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Ercol's Butterfly is Another Classic Chair
TreeHugger has featured a series of classic chairs whose design is so simple and inspiring that they are timeless. There is the Hille stacking chair designed by Robin Day, the Monobloc (not quite inspiring, but certainly
