Tag: Chairs - Page 9
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Sheetseat Cut From Single Sheet of Plywood
We love the idea of furniture that can slide under a door, that takes up so little space for shipping and storing. Efecem Kutuk designed the Sheetseat to be cut from a single sheet of 3/4" plywood with almost no waste.
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Transformations Seating: Designed for Deconstruction and Repair
If you really want to talk sustainability, you have to look at not only how something is made and what it is made of, but is it easily repairable? Will it last? Transformations builds furniture for the hospitality and education fields that is built
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Transformers: The Genya Chair Folds Up Into Elegant Sloping Slab
Seen at IIDEX: The Genya Chair is designed for auditoria, but I think would fit well into small apartments. This elegant sloping slab opens up to a very comfortable chair.
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Gürsan Ergil on Designing Furniture from Reclaimed Wood: 'The Trees Tell Me What to Do'
When Gürsan Ergil started making furniture from reclaimed wood back in 1991, he says, 'people were laughing at me for using old wood -- it was a crazy thing to do.'
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One Good Chair Competition: Vote On Where You Want To Put Your Rear
The three finalists' chairs are being unveiled today in Las Vegas; a finalist jury is picking the winner this week. A big component of the voting is the People's Choice vote here at TreeHugger; get more details below the fold. But vote!
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One Good Chair Competition: Peoples' Choice Award
TreeHugger readers have been asked to help pick the Peoples' Choice Award for the One Good Chair Competition, from among the three finalists. We have previously shown Andrej Blazon's Charity Chair and Azul Cadenas' BAMTAK Chair; Today the final
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One Good Chair Competition: BAMTAK Chair
TreeHugger readers can help pick the People's Choice in the One Good Chair Competition with a vote on Monday. Yesterday we discussed the criteria; today we note the remarkable and long list of judges, many of whom have graced
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One Good Chair Competition: Help Pick the People's Choice
The One Good Chair Competition challenged designers to "design an original chair that embodies and enhances a particular place." Its criteria are a reflection of changes in green design; it goes way beyond just making
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Transformer Furniture: iBum Hides Photocopier in Chair
And why is this on TreeHugger? We love furniture that serves multiple functions and takes up less space. Since at every Christmas party somebody in the office is going to try and sit on the old Xerox 914, why not build it into a chair, avoiding the
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Wretched Excess Department: Kid's Chair for $3674 $5433 with Stool
I don't quite know what to think about this. I always wanted Mies Van Der Rohe-designed Barcelona chair, but could barely afford the VITRA scale version. Now Knoll is making them for kids. Jill at Inhabitots says they
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DIY Chair Concept Uses Wood, Cardboard and...Zipties
IKEA with their single Allen wrench and image-based instructions would have nothing on a concept kit chair called "zipit" by viktor matic.Shown off at Designboom, the chair is as attractive as any simple kitchen chair, yet uses
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Transformer Furniture: Marie Antoinette's Library Ladder
Marie Antoinette found the consumption at Versailles to be a bit conspicuous, so she tended to retire to her modest little pile in the woods, the Petit Trianon, to do her own social networking.
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Finally! Organic Cotton Slipcovers From SureFit
Instead of purchasing a new couch, why not give that old, sad couch a second chance with 100% organic cotton slipcovers from Surefit. It's cheaper than buying a new living room set and comes in both solids and stripes.If you've got
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10 Awe-Inspiring, Sustainable Designs for a Living World: Showing Now at Cooper Hewitt (Slideshow)
Not able to hoof it to New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum for the Nature Conservancy's Design for a Living World"? Fret not, because we've brought the exhibit to you through the magic of the Internet.
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German and Italian Design Team Go Nuts with Recycled Veneer
What can 13 designers do with a pile of post-production veneer in seven days? Last week, during the DMY International Design Festival in Berlin, the combined German and Italian talent of design collective Transalpino
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11 Eco Upholstery Textiles Revolutionizing the Global Market
"High-tech" isn't what you'd normally think of when it comes to fabric, but in recent years, that's exactly what it has become. Innovation has brought about revolutionary new materials and processes, and one
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Flatpack Chair by Eric Ku is Self-Explanatory
We do love flatpack, (clever designs that use little material and are cheap to ship) and we decry excess packaging, so what could be better than a flatpack that tells you what it is. That is what Eric Ku, a recent grad from the School of Visual
