Tag: Tables - Page 6
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Phillippe Nigro's Table for People in a Hurry
Table tops are easy; any old door or slab will do. Legs are tougher; you can go to IKEA or Mockett and buy any number of different designs of legs that can be screwed on, but nothing so simple to install as Phillipe Nigro's idea for a
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Trend Watch: Local Furniture and the 100 Mile Interior
While having coffee with another design blogger, we discussed the future of design in the new economy. I suggested that furniture might follow food: people will want to look the designer in the eye to ensure that they are getting something built to
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Mass Customization: Design Your Table on Your Cell Phone
TreeHugger readers don't appear to share my fascination with mass customization, the idea that you can order exactly what YOU want, made to your specifications, instead of having to take what Mr. Big Box offers. One recent extreme example was
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Recycled Wooden Furniture
Recycled furniture is a growing area for young designers because there are so many interesting ways of approaching it. This furniture (pictured) is made from bits and pieces of leftover wood and is clean and contemporary looking. Amy Hunting, a
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STACK Furniture STUCK with VELCRO
It is really quite clever, if not comfortable; a single U-shaped piece can be linked to other identical pieces with industrial-strength Velcro to make all kinds of combinations. STACK is a modular furniture system that is reduced to just one element.
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TreeHugger Desks Around The World
A while back we did a post that included pictures of a few desks belonging to TreeHuggers around the world, but as usual so many contributors missed their deadlines, what can we say? So now we put them all together so you can see how we work. Some are
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Less is More: Small Space Office by Jonas & Jonas
Just don't wax your floors too well before buying into Jonas & Jonas furniture that leans against the wall and has just two legs. They say that "the scratch and shock-resistant body of this furniture is made of high pressure laminate and allows for any
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Transformer Furniture: Quickie by Jared Dickey
Transformer furniture lets people get more out of small spaces, and you are going to be a neat minimalist if you have to clean off your desk before you go to bed every night.
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Certified and Recovered Wood Design Furniture by Arqom
This table and the beautiful set of large design benches in the extended are the work of Argentinean architecture and design studio Arqom, based outside the almighty Buenos Aires in Chaco province (north-east of this country)
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Cardboard Office by Paul Coudamy
Parisian designer Paul Coudamy thinks outside the box with this interior for advertising agency Beast, made almost entirely out of 40 mm (1-1/2") thick honeycomb cardboard. Sabine at MocoLoco tells us that they had a one month timeline and a limited
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Zelos Desk Gets Small
As we migrate to smaller spaces but also work at home on our laptops, it is nice to see desihttp://www.classicon.com/images/copyright.gifgns don't take up much space but also let our work go away when we are done with it. Christoph Böninger's Zelos
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100% Design London: Showcase of Canadian Talent
We met Pablo Pineda Willis in Toronto this winter while he was still a student and was displaying his chair at the Interior Design Show with his fellow craftsmen from Sheridan
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3Fold Desk From Formtank
The designers tell us that "Environmental Design is on Formtanks' agenda and we're looking towards a more sustainable approach to business. With this in mind the 2d3d Group attempts to produce "more from less" through a simple proposition; utilise a
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Classic Furniture Designs From Cheap Sustainable Materials
Oriented Strand Board (OSB) is the stuff of building today, replacing plywood as sheathing and in floors. From an environmental point of view, it can be a mixed bag; there is little waste and smaller, fast-growing species can be used. In the UK you
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Expandable Dining Table Flexes For Your Pleasure
TreeHugger has seen its fair share of transforming tables, but in our quest for objects that allows us to get more from less, this one offers a new trick. Rather than folding down or folding up (?), this one splits right down the middle, adding surface
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Transformer Furniture: Braun Woodline Expanding Table
TreeHugger approves of objects that expand, fold out or otherwise transform to increase their usability in our lives; the more we can get out of the stuff we interact with every day, the fewer things and less space we need, right? Dining tables are
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Hanger Chair + Inflatable Table = Small Space Fun by Philippe Malouin
TreeHugger loves folding and flat-packing chairs for their ability to fold up (or even hang up) to get out of the way, so we like the space-saving designs from Philippe Malouin. The Hanger Chair, (pictured above) an elegant combination of coat hanger
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Transformer Furniture: Dwell's Convertible Coffee Table
Aside from offering a neat trick at your next dinner party, transformer furniture offers a great two-for-one deal; it allows us to live better in less space and use fewer resources doing so (which makes it a triple threat, I guess, if you count the
