Tag: Furniture - Page 10
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IKEA Confuses Shoppers, Encourages Clutter, and Exploits Workers
It has been a hard week for IKEA in both the mainstream print and the internet media. There are many things to love about the company that made good modern design affordable and desirable, but I have often complained of what I call
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New Green Decor Ideas for Furniture and Lighting
New and interesting green pieces of furniture seem to be everywhere lately. Starting with these wonderful Italian chairs with shopping bag stripes and laundry bag checks that are made from material left over from woodworking. Called the
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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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Wrecked Boats Are Recycled Into Furniture
Eco-friendly wooden furniture can be hard to find, but we've seen some made from interesting, salvaged and green sources, from coffee grounds to old New York buildings. Now a South African furniture designer has
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Prince Charles Shows Eco-House at the Home Show
The Ideal Home Show in London is a big, whopping mother of a home show which has been going on for 103 years! Who knows what they must have showed there in the '20's. We do know that King George V had a display house there in 1935.
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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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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 Tree on Stage: Wood Furniture That Connects to Nature
At TreeHugger, we've got a bit of a thing for good wood furniture: tables, chairs, shelves and other pieces that are beautiful and built to last. A few weeks back, I wrote about Olivier Dollé, whose furniture evokes the trees that
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Cool Cardboard Table Inspired by Moorish Design
The Valencia-based design studio Sanserif Creatius has graced TreeHugger's virtual pages before, with its "d"-shaped "Bold Chair" and an entire suite of classical furniture in styles dating back to the
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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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An Indoor Mini-Oasis for Harried Office Workers
It won't quite replace the feeling of lying on the grass underneath a big shade tree, but office workers and others needing a respite in the middle of the day would likely welcome a
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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 of New York: Unique Furniture Made from Salvaged Manhattan Timber
Talk about local production: timber reclaimed from old Manhattan buildings is trucked to the South Bronx, where it's refashioned into the appropriately named Made of New York furniture collection. The work of John-Michael
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Is Mango Wood the New Bamboo?
From bikes and floors to sheets and t-shirts, bamboo is well-known as a popular green choice because as a fast-growing grass, it's a renewable material. Hemp is also considered
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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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Crowdsourced Design For an Ultra Low-Footprint Apartment: Clever Ideas from the LifeEdited Project
What if we could save money, radically reduce our environmental impact, and have a freer, less complicated life? That was the challenge laid forth by TreeHugger founder Graham Hill when he started LifeEdited, an online international design competition th
