Apartment Therapy: seating - benches & stools

The Pitch Stool by Nicolai Czumaj-Bront

This beautiful little stool was created by American designer Nicolai Czumaj-Bront. Made from reclaimed wood, the stool "[explores] a balance and celebration of prevision and imperfection..."...

Sustainable Furniture by Oficinaethos

Sometimes (we hate to admit it) furniture made from salvaged wood can be a little on the boring side. Sometimes the "organic" style dominates and the fun is a little lost. Not so with the furniture co...

Chill Designs: He Makes Wine. She Recycles The Barrels.

Ron Calvert makes wine in his home winery, located in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California. His wife Candace, meanwhile, decided to recycle the barrels Ron uses for wine making (that have a l...

Molly Worth of Chairloom: Reuse and Reinvent
Re-Nest Interview

We've said it before: reupholstering furniture is a very green practice. Molly Worth of Chairloom is a 3rd-generation reupholsterer based out of Philadelphia. We first met her at the Brooklyn Flea...

100% Design London Showcases Sustainable Designs

The 100% Design London showcase, the UK's leading architecture and design event, has just concluded and sustainable designs were as pervasive as ever. Some of the finds from this year's event inclu...

The Story of a Bench: Part 2

Actually it’s the last part because the bench is done. Once we nailed down the design it only took a few weeks to complete, it’s sitting in our landing strip and we love it!...

Deals on Eco-Friendly Furniture
Viva Terra on Sale

Here at Re-Nest, we're big fans of the eco-friendly high design from Viva Terra. Today we happened upon the fall furniture sale that's ushering in the season. The sale prices offer a pretty good savin...

Cardboard Stools by Proyecto Cartoon

We're always very wary of cardboard furniture. It doesn't make a lot of sense to us. Yes, it's fully recyclable and can be made from recycled material. But how long does it last and how often do you h...

The Story of a Bench: Part 1

Okay, we’ve finally decided to do it – get a bench made for the landing strip. We’ve been thinking about it for over a year, and have started the process to work with Green Sawn to make a cust...

Best Shaker Chair Sources 2009
from Hancock Village and beyond...

These dining chairs had short backs ("Low Back") and were my favorite. Look how they fit under the table in this main dining room - Hancock Shaker Village After over a week of being away, there is so...

Ottomans from Iron Thread Design!
Austin

We're smitten with these locally produced ottomans from Iron Thread Design. Fun shapes, adorable fabrics and fresh designs abound in these multi-use furniture pieces... ...

DIY Rubber Hose Chair

This rubber hose chair by Instructables user Wholman looks really comfy and consists of little more than an aging, leaky air hose, 4 threaded steel rods, and some scrap plywood. See how it was made ...

Nightwood: Reincarnated Furniture

We first noticed Nightwood at the Brooklyn Flea's Fall Furniture Festival back in the fall. Now as we set about to redo our living room, we remembered Myriah Scruggs and Nadia Yaron pitch perfect t...

Modern Firewood Furniture by AK47 Design
Making Firewood Storage Fashionable

Though the summer heat makes it hard to think about wood burning stoves and firewood, these stylish firewood storage would look good year-round. This impressive collection of design ideas all focus ...

Etsy Find: Rustic Furniture Made from Reclaimed Cedar

Call us old-fashioned, but there is a soft spot in our hearts and home for rustic charm (read: what's old is new again), probably thanks to growing up on a farm. So imagine our delight when happening ...

Pirwi: Sustainable Furniture Now Available in U.S.

Take a gander at these modern, smart, chic, and sustainable designs from the Mexico City-based manufacturing collective Pirwi. The young company has teamed up with Kirk, a modern design gallery in A...

Varian Designs: Reclaimed Wood Furniture

The Tyr table made from Torrey pine salvaged from the City of San Diego. Forest Dickey, a young up-and-coming San Francisco furniture designer, crafts furniture from reclaimed wood and metal. His de...

Gus Upcycled Ottoman

We're really digging the graphic look of this Upcycled Ottoman by Gus*. The fact that it's upholstered with surplus jute coffee bags is also pretty sweet....

Repurposed Furniture by &Made

Using what you've got, making something from nothing, reducing, reusing, recycling — these are all reasons we here at Apartment Therapy love a good repurposing. Which brings us to London desig...

Andrew Moe: Handmade Furniture from Reclaimed Lumber
ICFF 2009

This was one of our favorite new booths. Andrew Moe showed off a super simple line of ash furniture, The Oslo Line, made of reclaimed lumber that had relatively low price points, compared to the su...

Organic Modern Furniture by Kenneth Cobonpue

Inspired by his mother’s production of rattan furniture, Kenneth Cobonpue has created amazingly beautiful, innovative modern furniture using natural fibers and materials. Integrating organic mater...

Recycled 55 Gallon Chair

55 gallon drums make great rain barrels but here's another use for the versatile recyclable: A recycled chair. See two version after the jump, one with a built in cooler and cup holder, and the other,...

PURE Furniture Design by Ami McKay

Cyrilla Daybed We were taken aback when we came across Canadian company PURE and Ami McKay's beautiful and "guilt-free" furniture line. They've managed to create green furniture without sacrificing o...

Vintage Grain Sack Seating by InstallationAntiques

InstallationAntiques is an online vintage house wares shop that carries a number of early and mid-century pieces. The shop offers many fun and funky refurbished styles of furniture, but we were partic...

Snake Island Furniture

Toronto's Snake Island Furniture is a fairly young company "reclaiming, reusing and re-envisioning" wood harvested from Toronto's forests. Their collection includes coffee tables, sideboards, media...

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