Apartment Therapy: seating - sofas & armchairs

Chairs Made from Clothing

This is the flip-side of our earlier post on bikinis, dresses and socks for chairs. Whereas those pieces were made to (literally) dress up furniture, these designs are upcycled from old jeans, belts...

Über-Modern and Sustainable Seating

Take a look at this eye-catching seat: this modern sofa evokes thoughts of water and pebbles. It's not just inspired by nature, though —it's also easy on it......

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...

Reclaimed Window Blind Chair by Gruba

If you'd asked us what we thought this chair was made of (before we read all about it), we never would've guessed salvaged window blinds......

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...

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....

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...

Five Favorite Cardboard Creations

click thumbnails for larger pics Frank Gehry started it back in the 1960's (see photo 2). Now, we see cardboard popping up all over throughout the design world. We've gathered five of our favorite ca...

Lucy Renshaw Furniture & Interiors

click thumbnails for larger pics Lucy Renshaw is inspired by junk. She works with recycled fabrics and reuses found materials to create everything from lamps to large furniture. She combines techniq...

Eco-Friendly Furniture from Urban Woods

We love the lines of this eco-friendly furniture from Urban Woods. Made from reclaimed wood and eco-friendly materials, these pieces are finished in water-based non-toxic stains. The environmental...

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...

Reclaimed Truck Top Canvas Furniture from Environment

At first glance you might wonder what is up with all the patches and stains on this couch. But actually, that's the way it's supposed to look! The fabric on this Studio Sofa from Environment is ma...

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...

Annie Shopping Cart Chair by Reestore

Rescuing unwieldy shopping carts after they've been abandoned in an alleyway, ditch or under a bridge, Reestore gives them new life as a chair......

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...

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...

CB2 Sofas
Now Made With Eco-Friendly Construction

We were thumbing through the new CB2 catalog yesterday and noticed a trend with almost all of their sofas – eco-friendly construction! ...

Ultimate Work at Home Space-Saver: Trio Sofa

We're always interested in furniture that serves more than one purpose -- it's often a good way to save space -- but we rarely have any real use for it. Our place is small, but we don't need a dining ...

La-Z-Boy Goes Eco-Friendly

Hearing that La-Z-Boy recently debuted an eco-friendly line of recliners and couches really warms the cold corners of our heart. It's like hearing that grandpa put solar panels on the roof. We grew up...

Reclaimed Driftwood Furniture by Carlos Motta

Reclaimed wood furniture has such a striking presence in a home. Its warmth invites and offers comfort, but the piece is simultaneously modern and up-scale. And since we've been shopping for a rocking...

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...

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