Tag: Furniture - Page 4
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California Dumps Flammability Standard That Filled Our Furniture With Toxic Flame Retardants
I wonder how long it will take for the Chemical Industry to get their congressional errand boys to introduce a national standard?
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Open Source Project Lets You Design and Build Your Own Chair
Software tool SketchChair will let users design and test chairs, then send them the plans to build them.
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Clever Rotating Bookcase Wall Is Made with Reclaimed Plywood
A full-wall bookcase becomes a flexible room-dividing element through rotation: now you see it, now you don't.
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Allison Arieff On The Future Of The Office: Is it All About The Video?
I have said that your office is in your pants; Steelcase thinks it is in a big home theatre at the office.
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Folding Furniture Is Dining Table, Desk and Coffee Table in One
A table created by David Christian Koch serves transforms, without the use of tools.
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Flat Pack Fabric Bookcase Stores Books Like Clothes
A new, textile take on an old favorite: using modular units to (literally) hang books, this fabric bookcase is easily expandable and assembled.
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Furniture Made from Plastic Bottles and Human Hair Looks Comfy and Creepy
A Swedish designer makes seating from recycled PET bottles stuffed with human hair.
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3-Way Ping Pong Table Seen at London's Clerkenwell Design Week
It's called a design week but it's only 3 days: packed with the likes of flatpack recycled cardboard stools, chairs made of leftover material, an innovative ping pong table, and more.
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Sleek, Modern Furniture Is Made from Recycled Tomatoes, Car Parts & Clothes
Dutch design firm Springtime makes furniture from wrecked cars, shredded textiles and agricultural waste.
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5 Steam Cleaners for a Chemical-Free Home
Clean treated wood, glass, plastic, and other hard surfaces -- using only water.
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On Knowing The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing: More on Why Things Cost More
Dwell Magazine looks at the issue of why good design costs so much, and is appreciated so little in North America
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Grow Your Own Garden Chair With Chair Farm
German designer Werner Aisslinger's Chair Farm is a "steel corset" that trains plants into chairs.
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Modular Bookcase Transforms Into Moving Boxes
Sometimes, a simple box can be pretty darned smart. This system of transformer, modular shelving proves the point.
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Craft for Craft's Sake Means Nothing: The Principles of Deep Craft
One designer argues that the rebirth of making things by hand is in danger of devaluing the craft it sets out to celebrate.
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40 Designs Made from 1 Storm-Felled Tree Debut in Chicago
A storm-felled tree in Chicago produced material for students in a design course to make more than 40 products.
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Living Room Set Is Made from Repurposed Industrial Materials
A small design show featured chairs, a table and more made from old industrial materials.
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Colorful, Comfy Bench Is Made from Trashed Textiles
This odd-looking bench is stuffed with shredded textile leftovers.
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London's Raw Craft Show Focuses on the Essence of Furniture Making
Working in an age of austerity, these furniture makers focus on pure, honest design.
