Tag: Furniture - Page 11
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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
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A French Designer Brings Out Some Remarkable Wood Furniture
There's something great about wood furniture- it's solid, aesthetically pleasing, and has a lot of green potential, if it comes from reclaimed or sustainable sources. French designer and
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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
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An Adjustable Book Shelf Lets You Put Your Own Spin On Your Living Room
From South Korean design studio DesignJoo comes the Giro One, the piece that lets you put your own spin on your shelves, lighting, and side tables. The concept is simple: shelves can be added and their height adjusted by spinning them
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In Paris, IKEA Makes Waiting for the Bus a Pleasure
This week, Parisians and visitors to the city taking the bus will have a very different experience while
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Not Made in China, Designer Guillem Ferran Proves a Point with Products Made from Used Pallets (Photos)
Here is a series of objects with the unusual label "not made in China". The Catalan designer Guillem Ferran, whose Where Memory Used To Sit chair collection, Distendido and La Pell leather project we wrote
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Folding Beds from Griffon Make Reclaimed Space Look Good
The French furniture company Griffon was established in 1848 and spent the next century making conventional products for churches and private homes. But in the 1960s, Griffon turned to creating furniture for an increasingly
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Transformer Furniture: A Bookshelf Hides Table and Chairs
From Japanese designer Sakura Adachi comes this marvel of space-saving design: "Trick," the bookshelf that hides a table and two chairs. Featured by Italian manufacturer Campeggi at the 2010 Salone del Mobile in Milan, this is a great
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Futuristic Green Design Concepts Give New Life to Old Buenos Aires Building (Slideshow)
Design and architecture event Casa FOA takes an old building or structure in Buenos Aires and puts it in the hands of talented architects and designers -- who transform it to showcase interior design 'concept spaces.'
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Futuristic Green Design Concepts Give New Life to Old Buenos Aires Building
Design and architecture event Casa FOA takes an old building or structure in Buenos Aires and puts it in the hands of talented architects and designers -- who transform it to showcase interior design 'concept spaces.' Apart from bringing new life to old
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Nudge, the New Eco Lifestyle Shop in Helsinki, Has Opened Its Doors
I wish there was a Nudge in every city. It's a whole new way of shopping, or actually, it's not just about shopping, but rather about living, and style. Nudge is the new eco lifestyle experience, which consists of a shop, a
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Biodegradable Knitted Sofa, Folding Screen, Trash Can By Emiliano Godoy
Mexican designer Emiliano Godoy's biodegradable knitted chair is a classic for those into green design. But over the past few years he has extended the knitted line into a few more products, including the sofa on this picture, a
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Sublime Sofas With Soul: Recycled Textile Seating by Casamento (Photos)
How can we get away from the soullessness of most mass-produced sofas? For some, it may be marrying two unexpected partners (like the surprising Fridgecouch), or for others it could be making it multifunctional, transformer-style.
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Posh New Shop In Mexico City Features Clever Sustainable Design
Open only a few days ago, Pirwi is a new store in Mexico City that features work by a group of 12 Mexican designers led by Emiliano Godoy (long-time feature at TreeHugger) and Alejandro Castro.
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Less is More: How a few sticks create elegant coat racks (Photos)
Inspired by Japanese Kimonos, the coat racks by the German company Noi are sculpture-like structures made from minimum amount of materials. The different wooden objects are all sticks; no need for screws, glue or other fasteners to hold them up. They
