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The PaperChair: A Modern Design Made from Expired Flour and Old Newspapers

The PaperChair: A Modern Design Made from Expired Flour and Old Newspapers

The PaperChair is an eco-friendly chair made from 100% recycled materials, including expired flour and old newspapers. To create the chair, two students of Faculty of Architecture in Slovenia, Peter

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Plant Growing Sprout Table Brings Fresh Spring Greens to Any Meal

Plant Growing Sprout Table Brings Fresh Spring Greens to Any Meal

Getting the whole family to eat their vegetables can be a challenge – but thanks to this super cool Sprout Table by Swedish student, Lena Louise Meyer, you can harvest and grow veggies right in

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DMFD’s Amazing Curved Chaise Lounge is Made From 100% Recycled Cork

DMFD’s Amazing Curved Chaise Lounge is Made From 100% Recycled Cork

Get comfy on an elegant Cortiça chaise lounge and let your worries melt away. This brilliant piece of sustainable furniture comes from design studio DMFD, and uses cork waste taken from the bottle

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Dutch Earnest Studio’s Multifunctional Furniture is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Dutch Earnest Studio’s Multifunctional Furniture is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Rotterdam-based designer Rachel Griffin created her multi-functional “Sum of the Parts” furniture collection by questioning why our objects are designed to be static when almost everything

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A2′s Stackable ‘Street’ Shelving Units Lets Your Build a Community for Your Plants and Books

A2′s Stackable ‘Street’ Shelving Units Lets Your Build a Community for Your Plants and Books

Give your books and plants a happy home in one of A2‘s stackable ‘Street‘ storage units. The Street system consists of four parts, including a frame, a house, and a high and low unit.

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The Wooden Åsta Stool is a Simple Seat Inspired by Carpentry Clamps

The Wooden Åsta Stool is a Simple Seat Inspired by Carpentry Clamps

Designer Karin Ekwall created the clever Åsta stool, a portable seat that mixes the traditional Scandinavian furniture and history of joinery into a nostalgic and aesthetic piece of carpentry. The

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Old School Industries Transforms Unwanted Furniture Into One-of-a-kind Pieces with an Edge

Old School Industries Transforms Unwanted Furniture Into One-of-a-kind Pieces with an Edge

Someone’s trash is another person’s treasure. That’s the philosophy of Old School Industries, a new business that creates unique, one-of-a-kind homewares and furniture by up-cycling. Defined by the

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The Colorful Eadie Armchair Fuses Pop Style With Eco Craftsmanship

The Colorful Eadie Armchair Fuses Pop Style With Eco Craftsmanship

Designer Donna Wilson mixes classic styling with quirky, colorful, hand-woven textiles to create fresh contempory pieces that are anything but old-fashioned. Her Eadie eco armchair replaces the use of

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OFFECCT’s Adaptable Green Divider Will Infuse Life Into Any Office Space

OFFECCT’s Adaptable Green Divider Will Infuse Life Into Any Office Space

Transform a dull and drab office space by injecting some life back into it with this cool, new ‘Green Divider‘ by Swedish designers Louise Hederström and OFFECCT. This living sectioning

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Nacho Carbonell’s Quirky Cocoon Benches Provide a Retreat from Everyday Life

Nacho Carbonell’s Quirky Cocoon Benches Provide a Retreat from Everyday Life

We all know that avoiding information overload is pretty difficult these days, but here are some interesting (to say the least) designs that will help you regain your sense of self. Handmade by Design

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Elegant No-Glue, No-Screw Kile Furniture by Yukari Hotta

Elegant No-Glue, No-Screw Kile Furniture by Yukari Hotta

Stay away from complicated assembly instructions, messy adhesives, and tools with this straightforward and easy-to-build furniture system that requires neither screws nor glue. Born in Japan and based in

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Ikea Launches New Solvinden Wind and Solar-Powered Outdoor Lights

Ikea Launches New Solvinden Wind and Solar-Powered Outdoor Lights

We’ve covered Ikea‘s solar powered lamps in the past, however the Swedish purveyor of affordable design just launched a brand new line of Solvinden lights that are powered by the wind as well

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Aandeboom’s Portable Tree Bench Turns Any Tree Into a Shady Seat

Aandeboom’s Portable Tree Bench Turns Any Tree Into a Shady Seat

This clever pop-up Tree Bench was designed by Aandeboom, the Dutch team that brought us the clever P-Tree urinal. This quirky design takes the traditional park bench to another level by supporting it with

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Tomas Schön’s Flat-Pak ‘A-Board’ Becomes a Full Shelf with the Pull of a String

Tomas Schön’s Flat-Pak ‘A-Board’ Becomes a Full Shelf with the Pull of a String

A finalist at the Green Furniture Awards 2012, the ‘A-Board’ by Argentine-born Italy-based Tomas Schön’s is a bookshelf that consists simply of an eco-labeled plywood board and one strong

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MDC Interiors’ Glow Table Is a Cool Recycled Pallet Wood Creation

MDC Interiors’ Glow Table Is a Cool Recycled Pallet Wood Creation

MDC Interiors created this uber-cool Glow Table from recycled pallet wood, concrete, glass, pine, and steel. The concrete combined with a narrow pallet strip provides an industrial feel along with a warm

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The Kai Table Has a Bevy of Secret Compartments to Stash Your Stuff

The Kai Table Has a Bevy of Secret Compartments to Stash Your Stuff

With a bevy of hidden compartments that you can stash your stuff in, the Kai table is an urban apartment dweller’s dream. Built by Naoki Hirakoso and Takamitsu Kitahara, the coffee table is made of

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Rocker Lane Workshop Makes Contemporary Furniture from Reclaimed Floorboards

Rocker Lane Workshop Makes Contemporary Furniture from Reclaimed Floorboards

Rocker Lane Workshop is a new Irish company that produces hand crafted contemporary furniture made entirely from reclaimed maple floorboards. The workshop is the result of a collaboration between Seán

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Rodrigo Alonso Creates Precious Diamond-shaped Seats from 100% Recycled Plastic

Rodrigo Alonso Creates Precious Diamond-shaped Seats from 100% Recycled Plastic

Electronic devices, toys and even stadium seats have been given a second chance, taking the shape of these fantastic diamond seats dubbed ’100%’. Made with a low-energy rotomolding technique,

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Matthias Pliessnig Steam Bends Strips of Wood into Stunning Sculptural Seats

Matthias Pliessnig Steam Bends Strips of Wood into Stunning Sculptural Seats

Matthias Pliessnig‘s beautiful organic benches strike a perfect balance between the the subjects he studied: sculpture, furniture design, and wood & art. The Philadelphia-based designer creates

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The REK Modular Table Transforms to Fit Any Interior

The REK Modular Table Transforms to Fit Any Interior

Reinier de Jong’s new REK coffee table adapts to any apartment size or social situation with ease. The wooden surfaces slide and transform to create an array of usable surfaces, or fold up compactly

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Pawel Grunert’s SIE43 Chair is Made from a Cascade of Clear Blue Plastic Bottles

Pawel Grunert’s SIE43 Chair is Made from a Cascade of Clear Blue Plastic Bottles

This watery blue chair by Pawel Grunert is as refreshing as the liquid that was once contained in the plastic bottles it’s made from. Called the SIE43 Chair, the piece was constructed for the ‘Eco

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INTERVIEW: Inhabitat Chats with Recycled Wood Designers Scrapile

INTERVIEW: Inhabitat Chats with Recycled Wood Designers Scrapile

I have been enamored with environmentally conscious furniture company Scrapile ever since I came across their line of recycled wood furniture during New York Design week years ago. Brooklyn-based

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Rodrigo Alonso’s N+ew Seats Are Cool Electronic Time Capsules Full of E-Waste

Rodrigo Alonso’s N+ew Seats Are Cool Electronic Time Capsules Full of E-Waste

Technology’s fast pace has left in its path mountains of electronic waste, but it has also given way to a new medium for eco-designers to work with. Made from unloved CDs, qwerty keyboards,

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Cradle is a Flat Pack Chair Designed Specifically for Autistic People

Cradle is a Flat Pack Chair Designed Specifically for Autistic People

The thoughtfully designed Cradle is a sustainable rocking chair created by a collaborative effort to aid people with autism and Rhythmic Movement Disorder (RMD). Developed by Richard Clarkson, Grace

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Floris Hovers’ No Glue No Screw Flat Pack Stools are ‘Wrapped’ in Rope

Floris Hovers’ No Glue No Screw Flat Pack Stools are ‘Wrapped’ in Rope

Dutch designer Floris Hovers created his surprisingly simple ‘Wrapped’ stools out of a few pieces of wood with biodegradable rope wrapped around them. The word ‘Wrapped’ is a

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Handmade Star Trek Coffee Table Looks Just Like the USS Enterprise

Handmade Star Trek Coffee Table Looks Just Like the USS Enterprise

Star Trek fans can now boldly go where no interior decorator has gone before with this geek chic coffee table that looks just like the USS Enterprise! Designed and constructed by Barry Shields, the

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Seung-Yong Song’s Multi-Tasking Chair Lets You Hide, Store and Even Dry Your Clothes While You Sit

Seung-Yong Song’s Multi-Tasking Chair Lets You Hide, Store and Even Dry Your Clothes While You Sit

Even though a chair’s main purpose is to provide a platform for sitting, we all use them in an array of different ways. Designed for hiding, climbing, storing and even drying clothes, Seung-Yong

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Tomas Alonso’s A Side Table Saves Space by Collapsing in a Snap

Tomas Alonso’s A Side Table Saves Space by Collapsing in a Snap

Designed for small spaces and easy portability, designer Tomas Alonso‘s A Side Tables can be folded flat in just seconds. Made from powder coated steel, ash and laminated plywood, these collapsible

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