Karen Ryan launced her “Custom Made” series back in 2005. Inspired by her grunny’s old appartment, Ryan aims to subvert the cycle of consumer culture. Thus, she creates chairs with chairs…. As the designer explains “I collect discarded and unwanted chairs from the street, car boot sales, jumble sales, second hand shops and charity shops…
BrandBase is an advertising agency in Amsterdam relocated to an empty canal house right in city’s historic center. The house was empty and needed some furniture. So, the agency in collaboration with Most Architecture created a sustainable, economical and of course creative working structure made out of 270 wooden pallets! Yes, 270 wooden pallets were…
If you are looking for stylish and environmental friendly home decoration, we have Giara lamp for you today. Chiara Goose Gustinelli of McGiver Creative Lab has designed this translucent pendant lamp that has been made from recycled cork combined with natural resin without any use of adhesive or glue to spoil its natural element. This…
Paul Everman is a designer from Sweden. Leela Lamp is one of the designer’s creations. The light is made out of a laser cutted and folded steel plate completed by sheets of wood. All wood used in the light is comming from recycled boxes. For further information, just click here.
Michael Wolke is a German designer who created these sculpural pentdant lamps out of old cardboard. The pendant lamps hang from the ceiling like the top half of a bee hive suspended in a room. Using layers of card, the structures are given a curved form — perfect for directing light and creating a soft…
Industrial designer Li-Rong Liao has a great gift; to convert any humble sheet into wearable piece clothing…. And here it is. Her folded paper dress. Li-Rong has recently graduate from Pratt Institute and she is more than able to handle in an ingenious manner from paper, cardboard, Tyvek, to felt. As a daughter of a…
Virtue of Blue is the work of the Dutch designer Jeroen Verhoeven that features of 500 butterflies cut from sapphire blue photovoltaic cells. The chandelier is made out of a hand-blown bulb and 4 different breeds of photovoltaic butterflies; solar power is been collected by the butterflies by day and power the lamp at night….
‘More With Less Arc Veneer Stool’ is the name. Lishuai Dong is the designer. Bented wood veneer, layered with old magazine paper, wraped together with rope. These are the matterials. The unique design is strong enough to hold one person. At the same time, all the matterials are reusable and eco-friendly. All these characteristics are…
Leather scraps. This is what Pepe Heykoop used to cover this unique pieces of furniture of the Skin Collection. The designer used what was leftover from leather furniture companies to cover chairs The collection will be exhibited at DMY Berlin in June. via: design-milk
Designed by Tenenbaum Hazan, Tris chair is a seat made out of old blinds. End of life plastic blinds were hold together by a wooden contour and form a new, useful and stylish product. Smart green furniture, isn’t it? (via : inhabitat)
