Vespa Office Furniture by Bel & Bel
Tables made out of car hoods, chairs made out of whiskey barrels, loungers made out of skateboards... You can have 'em. We want this chair....
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Rocking Powered Murakami Chair by Rochus Jacob
Why waste valuable kinetic energy created while leisurely rocking when you could power an OLED lamp while doing so? That's probably the question that spurred on this design by Rochus Jacob, resulting ...
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...
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...
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...
Barrelly Made It Recycled Chairs
We've seen chairs made from recycled wine barrels before — we've even seen chairs made from recycled whiskey barrels. But, we think we might like these wine barrel chairs from Barrelly Made It i...
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...
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...
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...
Daniel Michalik: Puts A Cork In It
Philadelphia
Daniel Michalik is an Industrial Design Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He certainly practices what he preaches — as you can see from these amazing furniture designs....
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...
Eco-Friendly PLI Furniture by Formway
We are consumed with jealousy that our readers in Australia and New Zealand have access to this lovely and eco-friendly furniture from Formway. The PLI line combines environmentally sustainable mat...
Drops Chair by Camilla Hounsell Halvorsen
Inhabitat
We're getting a kick out of the Drops Chair by Camilla Hounsell Halvorsen (a finalist in Inhabitat's Spring Greening Design Competition). It's like the Papasan chair we had in college, but so much coo...
Jason Lewis Furniture
If you're looking for high-quality wood furniture that will stand the test of time and not break down or fall apart (a very green idea indeed), look no further than Chicago-based Jason Lewis. Mr. L...
Cardboardesigns Furniture and LiquidCardboard Designs
Our recent post about DIY cardboard furniture creations ended up being one of our most popular recent posts here on AT Los Angeles, possibly a sign of the times revealing people's interest in low cost...
Paper Chair from Recycled Newspaper by Mario Stadelmann
Similar to the Pineapple Paper Furniture, Mario Stadelmann's Paper Chair is made from unexpected materials - recycled newspaper. The look however is something that would fit into an office or many hom...
Upgraded Vintage: Lotus Bleu
San Francisco
Seems like it was just yesterday that we were drooling over the reupholstered vintage furniture from Raval Warehouse. Well, here's a shop that does the same thing -- pairing vintage furniture with up...
Facundo Poj Design
We recently heard of Facundo Poj, a Miami-based designer, and were taken in by his beautiful bamboo and reclaimed furniture collection. Poj uses unconventional materials — salvaged cardboard,...
Roundup: Sustainable Furniture at Branch
What's not to love about San Francisco-based home design company Branch? Their selection of unique, well-designed products always please, and everything they carry is made from sustainable resources. ...
Perfect Perch by James Chu
We're normally pretty critical of cardboard furniture. A) It often looks like cardboard. And B) even though it's recyclable, we'd usually advocate spending more money on something that will last. How...
Recycled Furniture by Bike Furniture Design
It's true, I'm a sucker for anything made from recycled bike parts, sometimes regardless aesthetics. The furniture from Bike Furniture Design however is truly eye catching, functional and recycled....
Grasshopper 510
Curious about the name? The grasshopper symbolizes prosperity, wisdom and a leap of faith; 510 represents the wavelength measurement in nanometers for the color green. Grasshopper 510 has a bit of e...
Roughly Drawn: Recycled HDPE Chairs
We recently saw this chair at an art gallery and it’s one of the coolest uses of recycled plastics we’ve seen in furniture. The RD Legs Limited Edition chair is the latest of Cohda’s designs, an...
Green Ideas: Chairs Made from Fruit & Leaves
These chairs from designer Jessica Konawicz and were designed to be as green and energy-efficient as possible. The design was one of the winners of the One Good Chair contest and uses both green, bi...
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