Tag: Tables - Page 3
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Recovered Cardboard Shaped Into Sleek Wavy Chairs And Tables At FPD In Buenos Aires
One of such findings is
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Table That Doubles As Bike Stand Could Do Yet More
PIT IN is a clever table with a built in bike rack, so you never have to find a place to put your bike when you hit the café. The Designers STORE MUU say that it is "a table for a bicycle whose saddle functions as a chair.
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More on The Benefits of Standing Desks (And How To Build One On The Cheap)
While they warn that standing too much can cause varicose veins, author Marissa Brassfield concludes that "Medical
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Camping In Your Apartment: More Folding Tables That Take Up Less Space
Witold Rybczynski writes in HOME: A short History of an Idea that in the middle ages, "people didn't live in homes so much as camp in them." I always thought it would work very well again for those who try to live in
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Got a Tiny Home? Decorate With Fold-Out Furniture (Video)
Christy Oates will never be IKEA, but hopefully IKEA, which seems to concentrate much more these days on selling us stuff that we don't need rather than designing what we really do, will take some insipiration
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Sitting Down Makes You Fat; More Reasons To Get A Standing Desk
James Vlahos asks in the New York Times Magazine: Is Sitting a Lethal Activity? He tells of a study that used motion-tracking underwear, among other tools,
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10 Transformer Tables For A Tiny Urban Space: Help Pick The Best (Slideshow)
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste -- on less money -- but with more design. He calls it LifeEdited. To find each ideal piece of furniture for his small
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10 Transformer Tables For a Tiny Urban Space: Help Pick The Best
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste -- on less money -- but with more design. He calls it LifeEdited. To find each ideal piece of furniture for his small Ne
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PET Bottles Recycled Into Bright Lamps, Table Legs, Flower Pots In Chile
Motivated by a workshop at the Chilean Catholic University during her studies, designer Sofia Montero developed ADN PET: a line of products from tops and bottoms of recovered PET bottles.
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Salvaged Tree Trunks Transformed Into Unusual Tables
There´s a lot of wood furniture around these days that´s parading as green: the wood always seems to come from sustainable forests, which can be dubious. I´ve written about some recent products that do a lot to evoke
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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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A Second Life For Magazines: The Shredded Collection
I do love my Fast Company Magazine; it's nice to know that at least some of them find an afterlife in the Shredded Collection Table made by Studio Jens Praet. They write that they were "horrified by
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Hit or Miss? Bloggers Complain about Pure Sunlight, Designer Responds
When I wrote Coffee Table Doubles As Heliostat, Lighting Room, I suggested that "Perhaps it could use a little advanced technology to track the sun automatically."
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Coffee Table Doubles As Heliostat, Lighting Room
Sunlight is free, but it's not always in the right place. That's why people use light shelves and other technologies to reflect it against the ceiling. Danish designer Dag Igland has built Pure Sunlight, a sort of indoor
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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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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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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
