upcycle

  • Leela Lamp

    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.

  • Virtue of blue

    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

    ‘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…

  • Τris chair

    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)

  • The old magazines one….

    Merryn Haines-Gadd is an independent furniture and product designer based in Oxfordshire, UK. Merryn came up with this upcycling project; he took an old wooden chair frame and used old magazines to remake it as a functional chair. Friction, not glue, holds the paper together. The designer notes: “ That is the beauty of the idea,…

  • Biknit chairs

    Patricia Urquiola is a  Spanish architect and designer. And this is Biknit, a brand new and above all green series of  chairs and a chaise lounge for Moroso furniture manufacturers. If you look closer, you will get it. The chaise lounge is been made of wood, steel and…..stockings. It was presented at Salone del Mobile…