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- Oxgut Hose Company Makes Household Products Using Reclaimed Fire Hose Thu, 4 Dec 14, 8:39amWhat happens to fire hose once it has reached the end of its use? At Oxgut Hose Co., they become just about anything for the home that you can imagine, like seating, rugs or a even a firehose wood carrier. The company,...
- Ancient Kauri Wood Gets New Life in These Handmade Chairs Sat, 21 Jun 14, 6:30amBorn in the South of France, artist and artisan Guy Bucchi spent many years as a psychiatric nurse before moving to New Zealand to begin a new life. Using recycled materials such as wood, rope, copper or glass, he designs...
- Barracks Design Turn Manga Comics into an Offbeat Recycled Chair Sat, 24 May 14, 3:30amKiichiro Ogawa solves the problem of what to do with a languishing stack of old magazines in fine style with Manga chair. Like many people, Ogawa had a stack of long forgotten magazines quietly gathering dust, but instead...
- Artist Tadashi Kawamata Stacks Hundreds of Chairs Into a 20-Foot-High Sculpture Tue, 5 Feb 13, 5:00pmRead the rest of Artist Tadashi Kawamata Stacks Hundreds of Chairs Into a 20-Foot-High Sculpture Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", abu dhabi, Abu Dhabi art fair, Architecture, Art,...
- Studiomama Finds New Uses for Old Chairs with ‘Re-Imagine’ Project Wed, 10 Oct 12, 5:20amRe-Imagine, a new line of brightly-colored refurbished chairs from London design studio Studiomama, is a project born out of questioning our resourcefulness and our attitudes towards waste...
- Simple Wheelchairs Made From Reused Plastic Chairs Help Injured People in Rwanda Sat, 10 Mar 12, 8:26amIn order to make wheelchairs more accessible to people in developing countries, two designers are revamping common plastic chairs with a little bit of creative common sense. By affixing the widely available plastic seats...
- Sea Chair Device Recycles Ocean Plastic Debris Into Brand New Furniture Fri, 19 Aug 11, 7:50amRead the rest of Sea Chair Device Recycles Ocean Plastic Debris Into Brand New Furniture Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 3D Printed chairs, Alexander Groves, Azusa Murakami, eco design, fishing...
- “Cheap Ass Elite” Uses Recycled Plastic Baskets to Make Ornate Louis Style Armchairs Fri, 6 May 11, 2:55amDesigner Saran Yen’s new series of furniture takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to the battle of the classes. Using recycled plastic baskets and cast off chair legs, the installation “Cheap Ass Elites” combines the mass-produced...
- Bruce White’s Gorgeous Chairs Give New Life to Used Horseshoes Fri, 4 Feb 11, 10:20amIt was love at first sight when we spotted these gorgeous chairs by Bruce White of AHAlife. Each Reclaimed Horseshoe Chair has been welded and sculpted by hand by Bruce himself. He first starts by laying out a series of horseshoes...
- Recycled Suitcase Chair Perfect for Globe-Trotting Couch Potatoes Fri, 8 Oct 10, 8:30amNothing says “it’s time to get away” better than a packed suitcase – so when we spotted this awesome chair made from a recycled suitcase we couldn’t help but be enamored...