Winnie Lui's White Chandelier for Innermost is a trash-to-treasure exercise from the jewelry-turned-lighting designer, who has made 50 limited edition pieces in white and black. It's just one in a long tradition of light fixtures made from cast-offs that take on relevance as the world becomes increasingly overloaded with junk and designers transform it into raw material...
If you missed this one when we blogged about it last year, check out the hobbit-like eco-house that Simon Dale built for himself and his young family in just four months, with the help of his father-in-law, passersby and visiting friends...
posted originally from: AT:New York
Everyone is talking about how to do more with less in these dark economic times. Elle Décoration has a feature on a family home where just about everything is second-hand or DIY -- from this home-built loft bed with its paint-splattered ladder to modest vintage accessories made from flea market finds, like a DIY mobile made from old toys...
posted originally from: OhDeeDoh
Meri Von Rentel is a Paris-based Finnish designer whose Nonjetable furniture for kids (and adults) has a simple philosophy: high-quality, eco-friendly, long-lasting hand-finished furniture with a minimalist aesthetic, including beds, desks, tables and bookshelves like this handsome room divider/bookshelf has washable white panels that your children can draw on -- saving space trees in the process (see example after the jump)...
posted originally from: OhDeeDoh
François Royer began making his Stanker line of side tables by transforming recycled oil barrels (see results after the jump) in his Paris basement five years ago. Now based near Montpelier in the south of France, he has started Motxo design, which includes abandoned supermarket shopping cart chairs, pencil holders made from painter's grids and a light table made from a discarded washing machine drum...
posted originally from: AT:New York
This cardboard desk and two-seater bench (which doubles as a toy chest) from Kids Gallery is cute, recyclable and under 50 euros...
posted originally from: OhDeeDoh
France is dominated by old stone houses, but in the last several years, building wooden houses has become a major trend, with books and magazines devoted to the subject. Many French builders look to North America for inspiration on building wooden homes, but two brothers in the South of France have built a business creating tropical-style houses on the Cap Ferrat shore...
posted originally from: AT:New York
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