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Posts tagged “seating - sofas & armchairs”

Before and After: Minouette's IKEA TULLSTA Chair

before Minouette found this TULLSTA Chair on the street. Even though it was filthy and had been clawed by a cat, she saw the potential. Jump below for a look at the transformation... posted origin...

Katzies' Reupholstered Chair Before and After

Katzies' chair before, jump below for after AT reader Katzies was kind enough to take some before and after snaps of her chair reupholstering project and send them to us. We think the chair turned o...

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...

Small Space Solution: Huggy Armchair by Lago

As we've mentioned before, we have a guest staying for a few weeks. We hate to admit it, but she's sleeping on an air mattress in our front room. We have a little place, and she's a bit too tall for...

EKLA's Sustainable Sofas

We are really digging designer Emily Kroll's new line of sustainable sofas. They're made with FSC-certified wood, zero chemical flame retardants, and a lot of other very healthy materials....

WASTE Bean Bag Chairs

Growing up, we always loved bean bag chairs. We lusted after them, until finally our parents gave in and bought a hot pink one for our bedroom. It was marvelous. Perfect for reading and playing Nin...

Bamboo Ottoman from Vivavi

When we hear "ottoman" we think tufted, rectangular, maybe tweed (who knows why). This one blows all our preconceptions out of the water....

Tone Table & Chairs by Leif.designpark

Based in Japan, Leif.designpark is a collective of three designers, Takashi Ueno and Mamoru Naito and Keizaburo Honda, whose work is both modern and deeply traditional. Their new Tone series of cha...

Cisco Home at CA Boom 08

We'll be rounding up the highlights from CA Boom 08 over the next couple of days. What a great show and a great turn out. We're so inspired we could take the next 2 years just working on all the pro...

Knit Chair by Pirwi

This chair is expensive. For the money, sure, there are a few other things that we might go for first (a significant portion of the down payment on a home, say). But now that we've gotten that out...

Bath and Beyond Chair

We've seen couches made from clawfoot bathtubs — the lines of the antique design lends itself perfectly to tongue-in-cheek reinterpretation as a classic setee. It makes sense, then, that the more...

Cisco Brothers Sustainable Furniture

Driving through the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco this weekend, we saw a billboard for Cisco Brothers Furniture. We're always on the lookout for green furniture, so when we saw the word ...

Water Hyacinth Furniture

Water Hyacinth is a fast-growing aquatic plant native to South America. It's highly invasive when transplanted from its natural environment, and it's caused environmental damage in North America and...

Crate & Barrel Lockport Apartment Sofa

We're pretty impressed by the eco-friendly furniture and home decor that Crate & Barrel is cranking out these days. This particular sofa isn't revolutionary by any means. It's a pretty standard lo...

Norrgavel Länstol

We're so taken by the design of this chair that we were thrilled to learn about the little green details: an oil finish, super durable horsehair padding, and beech from well-managed Scandinavian fores...

Corky Lips by Neo Design Studio

Smacking of cork. These Corky Lips, designed by Neo Design Studio, are made of "cork leather" over a recycled foam core. posted originally from: AT:New York...

Oi: Modular Sofa in a Box

Shipping Smarts & Style. The Oi Sofa began with the idea of producing an adaptable, functional piece of furniture that was manufactured and shipped as efficiently as possible. Developed by Cocoon, t...

CD Chair

A use for old CDs? AT Reader Alex tipped us off on this Gizmodo post on the "Panda Chair" comprised of hundreds of used CDs. Ouch is the first word that comes to mind, but we applaud the effort. We...

Salvaged Design by Trevor O'Neil

Duh. In our post about art classes the other day, we mentioned the figure studies meet-up at the local TOJO Gallery. If only we had dug a little deeper, we would have discovered that Trevor O'Neil, ...

Patchwork by Thien Ta Trung and My Ta Trung

Montreal-based designer siblings Thien Ta Trung and My Ta Trung take pieces of quilted fabric that are left over during sofa production, and piece them together to make a rich, vintage-y yet modern ...

Greener Lifestyles Chaise Lounge

Pop bottle stuffing for the back pillows is an option on this chaise lounge from Greener Lifestyles. The design is fresh (we like the white stitching on the dark brown fabric) and the materials are e...