http://inhabitat.com Green design & eco innovation for a better world Fri, 25 May 2012 23:39:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://inhabitat.com/x-chair-is-recycled-from-the-waste-of-another-recycled-chair/ http://inhabitat.com/x-chair-is-recycled-from-the-waste-of-another-recycled-chair/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:45:20 +0000 Guy Burnett http://inhabitat.com/?p=151219

We’ve written about Gas and Air Studios‘ awesome folding chairs made from old shipping pallets before, but guess what? With the wood leftover from making those, the designers have created yet another piece of recycled furniture – the XChair. Strong and chunky, the new chair can be dismantled into two parts so that it is easily stored and moved. Now that’s reducing waste!

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These colorful Fold-out Pallet Chairs from Gas & Air Studios combine strength-of-form with environmentally-aware design. Each chair is hand made from a single recycled wooden pallet – thousands of which continue to fill landfills across the UK each year. No extra treatment is used on the wood during the production process, and the paint used is solvent-free. There are 14 colors to choose from, and when folded down the chair is compact, strong and can be easily stacked for storage.

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