Tag: Chairs - Page 9
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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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Malafor: Design More With Less
These Polish designer, who we discovered at this year's Milan furniture fair, and who's colourful tree trunk stools have been featured previously, know how to create more with less. Dematerialisation is one way of designing eco-friendlier objects- it
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Flatpack Smackdown: KitKat Vs. D. E. Sellers
Fast Company shows us an advertising campaign from New Zealand where Kit Kat asks: "In the Kiwi summer of 2010, large crowds gathered at outdoor events and concerts. But how could we capture the imagination of this captive audience,
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Bricks Sofa by Robert Bronwasser for Palau, Furniture as it Should Be
Here is a furniture company that makes simply good design: long lasting, both emotionally (through timeless design) and technologically (good quality), as well as made from environmentally
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Sparkling Chair Made of PET and Air, Just Like a Water Bottle! by Marcel Wanders
The most eco-friendly material to make furniture is probably the one we don't use (no material, no ecological footprint so to say)... so what about air? We have featured a series of inflatable items, such as inflatable solar panels, an inflatable house
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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: Live Bio-resin Performance by Breaded Escalope (Video)
There are plenty of cocktail parties at the Furniture Fair in Milan, but this one was quite different. All the way out in Zona Bovisa we visited the show Meet My Project and were greeted at a bar that served fresh... bioresin products! The 3 designers
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Super Posh (and Pricey) Green Furnishings by Moroso
I've always been a fan of Moroso -- the brand is just so lux and classy....although very expensive, and not green. Until now. The Italian furniture manufacturer has not one but three
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: The Green Preview (Slideshow)
Bored of your furniture? What if you could just sit in it to give it a fresh, new shape? That's the idea behind Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka's Memory chair, made of crumbled recycled
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Make This Crazy-Cool Puff With Recycled Tights from Remade in Chile
When Chilean designers play with waste, we know interesting things can happen: the posh plastic bags boots, weird recycled butts clothing, and crazy accessories with trainers are proof. This is why we're thrilled to
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Sleek Recycled Pallets Furniture to Improve Work of Cooperative in Brazil
Revale is a project by Brazilian studio Design Simples, aimed to improve the work and life of the Unindo Forças woodwork cooperative in Vale do Sol (Barueri, Sao Paulo).
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Bloom Chair Made From Identical Folded Plates
Designboom shows Korean designer Rerang Park's Bloom Chair, constructed of identical folded steel plates. They lean together and support each other, much like an arch. It almost looks like it could be made to fold flat and then unfurl like a
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Can Cutting Native Forests for Furniture be OK? Nativas del Sur Shows it Can
Can you make super sleek furniture with wood from native ancient forests in a sustainable way? This project from Argentina that works with selective logging and super efficient use of wood suggests you can. More
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Turning Beetle-Infested Wood to Good (Design) Use
Of all the new architecture built for the Vancouver Olympics, the Richmond Olympic Oval is the jewel in the crown. Its clean soaring lines and 17 graceful arches that make up the wood ceiling give the building grandeur and elegance.
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Are Standing Desks Healthier Than Sitting?
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill uses a standup desk, a very simple board on two cabinets; I stayed in his apartment a few years ago and just loved it, and have wanted to convert to one ever since. I
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Multifunction + Flatpack + Le Corbusier = Bookcase Chair
Only an architectural historian like Gail Peter Borden would photoshop his bookcase chair into what is probably the most iconic architectural photograph of the 20th century, Julius Shulman's shot of the Case Study House 22. If you are are a modern
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Serbian Artists' Imaginative, Sustainable Takes on Everyday Objects (Slideshow)
Sustainable design might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Serbia, but for the last three years, Natasa Ilincic and Yugoslava Kljakic of the
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Furniture Designed to Go Wherever Ugo
Images: Ugo If you're looking for a couch and you're not a bzillionaire, I don't envy your plight. Finding good, affordable vintage can be hit or miss (don't even look on Nashville Craigslist if you have a sensitive gag reflex), and opting for
