Apartment Therapy: furniture & product designers

Renegade Handmade: 300 Artists and Tons of Talent

Renegade Handmade is a completely unique one-stop shop for DIY goods, featuring the work of over 300 artists! The mortar-and-brick store in Chicago was created as an extension of the über-popul...

André Joyau: Handcrafted Furniture and Home Accessories

André Joyau, the company founder and head designer of this small cooperative studio in Brooklyn, NY, oversees a group of of designers and cabinetmakers who create pieces that are "modern with...

8 Great Repurposed Goods From T.O.M.T.

We have a serious soft spot for items that find new life in great repurposed fashions. Rodney Allen Trice, the man behind T.O.M.T. has a serious eye and talent for taking everyday discarded items a...

Gift Fair 2009: Ronel Jordaan

We really liked Ronel Jordaan's booth at the New York International Gift Fair. Using natural fibers (mostly 100% merino wool) that are hand-dyed and hand-felted by a group of trained women in South ...

Rolling Green: Bamboo Skateboards

We'll admit to being partial to beautiful bicycles, but this could change our inclinations. For those who like four wheels instead of two, check out these sweet skateboards: they're 100% bamboo. ...

Storyteller: Repurposed Furniture by Isabel Quiroga

Promoting the ideas of creative reuse and the aesthetics of vintage furniture, Dutch designer Isabel Quiroga has repurposed various tables into Storyteller. This purple shelving and desk combo remin...

EcoSystems: Design for a Healthy Planet

The BADA Table: it's a dining table, a desk, and a sofa! Brooklyn-based design firm EcoSystems creates some seriously cool furniture pieces, any one of which we'd be more than thrilled to have in our...

Beautiful Sustainable Furniture by Iannone Design

Michael Iannone, the man behind Iannone Design, makes furniture out of materials that we love — cork, Kirei board, FSC and formaldehyde-free plywoods — and he uses low-VOC finishes and nat...

Etsy Find: Rustic Rietveld-Inspired Chair

Thanks to a tip-off from a reader, we found this chair made of recycled woods on Etsy, and we definitely appreciate the designer's new take on the classic 1930's design by Gerrit Rietveld. The wood...

Eco-Friendly Furniture & Products by Lucy Renshaw

British designer Lucy Renshaw creates colorful furniture and home accessories out of recycled fabrics and repurposed materials. In making her origin designs, Lucy Renshaw combines experimental ideas...

Stray Dog Designs: Fetching Home Accessories

If whimsical, colorful and quirky decor is your thing, then you should check out Stray Dog Designs. Their design principles are simple: all items are handmade with careful construction from quality...

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...

Bookhou

Toronto-based Bookhou was co-founded in 2003 by John Booth and Arounna Khounnoraj, and showcases their beautiful handiwork. All of their work emphasizes natural handmade materials on a small-scale ...

LiT Shades

Dawn Bassett's Seattle design shop LiT has caught our attention: they create colorful, contemporary lamp shades out of old, ugly lamps, turning what would have otherwise ended up in the trash into s...

Sustain Landscape Design

Many of you have been blessed with a green thumb, as we've seen by the Great Outdoors you've shown us this month. But there are those of you (admit it) that won't be winning any Green Thumb Wars an...

IMAKE Studio's Octavo Table

The Octavo table by design studio IMAKE Studio (of Nandinee Phookan Architects in Brooklyn) is comprised of a triangular top with two slanted bases that can be combined in a number of different conf...

Rajboori: Hand-Crafted & Eco-Friendly Silk Textiles

Note to self: earth-friendly does not necessitate earth tones. We can have a little (or a lot) of color and still be on friendly terms with the planet. Enter Rajboori. Their brilliant, colorful ho...

Toddler Pillows from Fabricadabra

Cute, cute, cute. Donna Halloran of Fabricadabra makes decorative pillow covers that use all natural and non-toxic dyes and fabrics, most of which are handwoven. We were browsing through her site ...

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....

Shimna
ICFF 2009

click thumbnails for larger pics Shimna came to ICFF this year with their beautiful wood furniture, and we took notice — particularly of the Liffey bed (shown above) with its underbed storage d...

Ferm Living
ICFF 2009

We've long been fans of Trine Anderson's colorful, retro designs for Ferm Living, and when we passed Ferm's booth at ICFF, there was certainly a lot to love. But our favorites were definitely the...

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...

T.O.M.T: Refitting the Planet

We discovered T.O.M.T. when we saw them on TIME's Green Design 100 list (which Re-nest is also on!). T.O.M.T is the work of Brooklyn-based Rodney Allen Trice who takes found objects and turns them ...

Good Quote: Piet Hein Eek on Sustainable Design

"The major thing is that you make durable things. If you buy a couch from IKEA with FSC-certified wood and you throw it away after two years, it is much worse than a non-FSC wood couch that you keep f...

Tumidei Spa: Furniture and Ideas for Small Spaces

Italian furniture designer Tumidei Spa has some unique interiors which maximize the use of space. Whether you're in the market for this type of furniture, or just want some inspiration, there are pl...

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