Tag: Multi-Purpose Objects - Page 2
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London Pop-up Shop Showcases Best of British Design
Our friends over at the design blog Dezeen have launched a pop-up shop in the smartest part of town. Calling it Temporium, because it is only up for 10 days, it features the best of new British design.
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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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Dirty Rags; from old uniforms to funky object (Photos)
What can you do with 1.285 bright green used uniforms? This was the brief the design students at Elisava school in Barcelona received by Urbaser, a local waste collection and urban
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Robin Day, Master of British Furniture Design, Dies
Yesterday TreeHugger asked whether the Monobloc was the most famous plastic chair in the world. Now, sadly, the death has been announced of the creator of another very famous plastic chair.
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Rubix Transformer Furniture Set Turns Your Living Room Into Dining Room In No Time (Photos)
Perfect for small spaces and aiming at the less-is-more approach, Rubix is a transformer-furniture set that can be both a living room lounge and a dinning room set up. Designed by Colombian firm DosUno Design, the set
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London Design Festival 2010: Julika Welge's Growing & Repairable Felt Carpet
Here is an interesting idea for a rug made of pieces of felt. We stumbled upon Julika Welge's Growing Carpet at this year's Designersblock at the London Design Festival, where the bright colours and the rich texture first
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A Modular, Expandable Compost Bin That Can Grow Plants and Store Tools, Too
Domestic compost bins come in many shapes and sizes, for indoor and outdoor use, tumbling or not, to help you turn organic waste into delicious hummus for garden and pot plants. However, if until now you haven't come across your desired shape or size,
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Astonishing Transformer Furniture (Video)
Transformer furniture holds a lot of great promise: multi-function furnishings that really do multiple things well, thereby saving space and resources. But I'd wager that most of the designs we see do more to tingle the imagination than offer true
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Coffee Table Doubles as Hand-Cranked Paper Shredder
Design*Sponge Pigeontail Design shreds your junk mail or those annoying bill that you want to avoid into attractive colourful strips of shredded paper. It's hand-cranked, too. They call it the Papervore. The Papervore from Pigeontail Design on
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Innovative Student Furniture Design at ICFF Steals the Show
Actually, the student designs steal the show every year at ICFF, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair held annually in New York. This year was not quite up to Pratt's spectacular exhibit from last year, but was close. Parsons I think Parsons the
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Transformer Desk from Urbancase Discreetly Hides Your Computer
For years, TreeHugger has been showing designs that help integrate work and living by making your computer hardware go away when the workday is over. It is less of a problem than it used to be, as our work hardware becomes our entertainment
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MusicLite Combines Audio System and LED Bulb in One Fixture. The Question is: Why?
When I first head about the MusicLite from Osram Sylvania, combining an LED light fixture with a wireless sound system, I was reminded of Saturday Night Live with Chevy Chase selling Shimmer! "It's a floor wax! No, it's dessert topping!" But in fact it
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Loftbox 101 Puts Your Apartment in a Box
Rainer Graff of Atelier Graff is clearly a minimalist, and thinks if you have a big loft that it should be open and flexible. He asks "How can openness and generosity of the loft floor plan be maintained during everyday use?"
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Sleek Furniture With Reused Plastic Crates You Can Emulate
Reusing plastic crates in furniture may not be new, but there are always new ways to do it in a more elegant manner. This time was turn for Brazilian designer Mauricio Arruda to give it a go, and he came up with a collection of
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Glowing Tomatoes, Couches to Kick, and More Wacky Green Ideas From the Milan Furniture Fair (Slideshow)
I went to Milan and what did I find? The world of the Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010 is like no other -- In fact, it's probably the only place in the world where punches are thrown at couches, tomatoes
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Tomato-Powered Light? Wild Light Innovations by D-vision Students
There's nothing like a light powered by the juicy red fruit more commonly seen in insalata caprese in this city to get the crowd all excited. Or how about a light carved out of soap or light shades made of
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Cookie Jar Encourages Healthy Eating
There are a lot of things that make you fat -- Lloyd has this great list. But often it comes down to eating a cookie when you should be eating a banana. If you (or people in your family) have this problem too, then the
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Plants that are Lamps, Lamps that are Plants
This is my favorite trend so far at the Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010: a plant that is a lamp, lamp that is a plant.
