With the “Inner Life Chair”Martín Azúa explores the integration of natural process in everyday life. The designer explores life inside objects. She first started the research in 1999 with the project Natural Finish, when he placed jars made of porous ceramics in river beds, which allowed him to collect a natural stain. Find more about…
If you do not know what to do with your old magazines, here’s a great idea coming from German designers NJU Studio. {C}{C}{C}{C}{cke_protected_1} With a little DIY and the help of a kit, you can transform your pack of magazines into a comfortable stool. The Hockenheimer comes with a low notched base made from natural…
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…
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
Italian designers Riccardo Nannini, Domenico Orefice and Emanuele Pizzolorusso created this more than clever prototype of recycling bin. 50 disposable and biodegradable pleated- recycled paper containers, nested inside one another. Once the top paper-bag layer gets full the only think you do is to pull it up and throw it away! Then, just start…
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)
Jason Phillips is the designer behind Prism Tables. He got inspired from the Sunset Chapel in Acapulco, designed designed by BNKR Arquitectura and created these tables in the shape of a precious gem. The tables are available in glossy black varnish or natural bamboo strips. All the components are bio-degradable and do not harm the environment at…
