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Posts tagged “outdoor furniture”

Jet Set Lounge Chair by Skate Study House

Add this one to your list of chairs made out of unlikely recycled material. We really liked the Bilge Lounge Chair made out of whiskey barrels and we laughed at the Rag Chair by Droog. But this cha...

Go Outdoor Furniture by Room & Board

Room & Board has always been a favorite of ours for interiors, but they do beautiful and environmentally responsible outdoor furnishings, too......

Eviro-Fiber Hammocks

Nothing like a hammock! For the first time, we have room for one at home - just have to get used taking it down if rain is coming (our b&w all-cotton one bleeds and would eventually fall apart, we fea...

FSC Certified Outdoor Furniture at Crate & Barrel

Hurrah! We're so excited to see a well-designed, FSC certified set of outdoor furniture so widely available. (FSC is one of the certification methods we trust the most.)There are lots of pieces avai...

Wood Garden Hanna Bench by Vendage

Salvaged from old fishing boats, the Hanna Bench by Vendage appears at once old and new. The silkscreened grass image on the backrest of the bench is a large scale, cropped graphic that gives the ol...

Sculpture or Furniture?

This is one way around the problem of a throwaway culture we blogged about yesterday: take things other people think of as junk, then transform them into beautiful and valuable pieces of functional ar...

Green Mountain Ski Chair

In general, we really like furniture made from recycled materials (especially outdoor furniture). And, well, we've had a lot of rain recently -- which means that a couple hours away at Lake Tahoe,...

Green Idea: Sun Table

While the weather during this time of year does not allow it, we do like to work on our laptop out in the backyard. While our Wi-Fi connection means no need for a wired connection to the internet, our...

Greenlight Magazine

Greenlight is a newer, free online magazine. A good chunk of it, as you might expect, focuses on products. But we found the editorial content of high quality and thought provoking, like this articl...

Updated Adirondack: Emmet Lounge & Ottoman

Outdoor Modern. We think we'll see these on the porch of a Dwell Magazine featured home, soon. The Emmet Lounge & Ottoman is an update of the classic Adirondack but made from 100 percent post-indust...

Look!: More on Grow Stools

Last month, I posted here on Grow Stools, which are pieces of furniture that are grown from the earth and shaped into three-legged stools. At the time, I couldn't find a source for those who wanted ...

Recycled Outdoor Furniture by Loll Designs

Lately, because our outdoor space is limited and we're trying to spend as much time in the sunshine as we can, while we can, we've been struggling to make the most of our front porch. The bench that...