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Multi Polar Projects: ITSOK 'Limited' Edition of 1 Million
The 50-year Project

This is quite the undertaking. We recently got an email from Sighn of Multi Polar Projects telling us about his potentially impossible current feat: to make 1 million hand-cut ITSOK ("it's ok") pie...

Ekobo: Ecology Meets Design

The French company Ekobo creates the most beautiful bamboo tableware we've seen, over 300 handcrafted products in delicious colors. (They're like the eco-friendly version of Fiestaware!) The proce...

Live Wire Farm: Timber Hooks, Spoons and Rings

Meet my new obsession: Live Wire Farm's timber accessories. The man behind Live Wire Farm, John Robohm, sent a few of his beautiful creations — a couple wall hooks, some spoons, napkin rings...

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...

EcoPeel Bowls by Luis Caicedo

A few weeks ago Maxwell was at the home of Luis Caicedo to shoot his space for Apartment Therapy's upcoming Small Spaces book. (Great home.) Luis is a designer, and he recently launched a line of...

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...

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...

Style and Substance: Reversible Totes from Green Girl

We've posted quite a bit recently on reusable bags (and more reusable bags). Maybe it's because the warmer weather has us thinking about farmer's markets, flea markets, our CSA share — all o...

EcoSystems: Ion Salon in Soho

Ecoysystems, known for their innovative and eco-friendly designs, has created a beautiful and sustainable space for the ION Salon in Soho, New York. Using FSC-certified wood and natural, non-toxic ...

3r Living
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Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. 3r. Opened in 2004, 3r Living's Park Slope location has been keeping the 'hood (and the rest of us as well) well-stocked in the green department. The products that you’l...

Iannone Design: Eco-Friendly Modern Design

We first heard of Iannone Design when we saw their Dandelion Graphic Console over at Vivavi, and we were so smitten with it that we had to find out more. Turns out Iannone Design is a Philadelphia ...

Green Style from Down to Earth Design

It's hard to walk out your front door without being pitched the newest "green" product, but it's not always as easy in DC to find companies devoted to beautiful design AND completely eco-friendly pr...

Tara Murray: Industrial Design

Doily Chair As a recent graduate of the University of Calgary's Industrial Design masters program, Tara Murray's thesis project focused on the effort "to maintain emotional connectedness to older pro...

West Elm Going "Green" in Emeryville, CA

Last Wednesday, West Elm opened the doors to its new Emeryville location. This is the second store in the Bay Area, and the company’s first built “from the ground up using green building practices...

Raval Warehouse

We love Craigslist, don't get us wrong. We've bought some of our favorite things from Craig. Bikes, coffee tables, desks. But sometimes, while scanning our local listings, we find things and we think:...

Bohannon Bijouterie Bureau by Trevor O'Neil

Artist and furniture designer (and Re-nest reader) Trevor O'Neil just sent us links to images of this amazing wall-mounted jewelry cabinet. It is a custom piece made from various pieces of hard and so...

Horigan Urban Forest Products

8110 Monticello AvenueSkokie, Illinois 60076847.568.1340www.horiganufp.com Looking for salvaged wood but don’t know where to go? Horigan Urban Forest Products may be one of the best salvaged wood ...

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...