HIVEMINDESIGN

Last month, we made our way over to Williamsburg to check out the Brooklyn side of New York Design Week. One of the best things we discovered in Brooklyn was Hivemindesign. Hivemind’s exhibition

BRANCH – sustainable design shop

If Inhabitat were going to spin off a retail site it would be exactly like Branch. In fact, we really couldn’t do it any better – so we are just going to throw in the towel. When we first

As fans of flatpak construction, we are intrigued by the new Itbed design from It Design. Made from folded 7mm thick cardboard, the accordion folded cardboard bedframe is easy to collapse and store away,

NEWSPAPER EXTENDABLE BENCH

It’s not uncommon to have a stack of newspapers sitting around; but it took the ingenuity of designer Charles Kaisin to turn a pile of old news into durable seating. The brilliance behind Kaisin’s

NONdesigns TOPO TABLE

Being a cartography buff, I was immediately taken by the topographical landscape of this NONdesigns table. The TOPO table consists of a corian surface (standard in kitchen countertops) interrupted by

PRATT IS WHERE IT’S AT

Brooklyn-based Pratt seems to be the school of choice for New York designers, and is currently producing some of the most cutting-edge industrial design in the country, when it comes to new technology and

GROW YOUR OWN GRASS FURNITURE

Here’s a great spring project to get you ready for those up-coming summer barbeques: grow your own lawn furniture with the Terra Grass Armchair kit. All you need to do is assemble a cardboard frame,

JULIAN LWIN BIODEGRADABLE BIOTUBE BENCH

Anyone who reads Inhabitat regularly will know that we are suckers for furniture with foliage. Julian Lwin has caught our attention before with his fabulously green, wheatgrass-studded Galapagos Coffee

IANNONE:SANDERSON FURNITURE

Almost a year ago today, we raved about kirei, an eco-friendly material which we discovered in Iannone:Sanderson’s gorgeous kirei Mod Coffee Table. This past weekend at ICFF, we were treated to

ICFF 2006 – The Inhabitat Editors’ Choice Awards

Now that New York Design week is officially over, we are finally getting a chance to breathe and start writing non-ICFF posts again. For those of you who are tired of hearing about furniture – this

BRENT COMBER SHATTERED FURNITURE

Reclaimed wood furniture is usually so predictable: large beams or slabs of driftwood turned into benches and stools. Thats why Brent Comber’s unique reclaimed wood furniture – made from

HauteGREEN

This weekend HauteGREEN opened with a flourish. The space looked beautiful, full of innovative and thoughtful explorations of sustainable design for the home, including a brand new piece from Scrapile,

ICFF Day 2

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ICFF – Day 1

We are already feeling overwhelmed by the excessive amounts of good stuff on display everywhere this week, but we are not going to give up until we’ve looted and plundered all the best of Design

OBJECT INTERIORS Coup Dresser

We are a sucker for anything using Kirei board, so we were delighted last weekend at BKLYN Designs to discover the material in new form – in Object Interior’s lovely Coup Dresser. The Coup

NEW FURNITURE FROM SCRAPILE

One of our first and most enduring design loves at Inhabitat is Scrapile. In the year since we first discovered them at BKLYN Designs 2005, they’ve come to epitomize sexy, cutting-edge sustainable

THE GREEN6 at ICFF

Design week is almost upon us in New York, and the biggest show of the season is of course, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center. This year, ICFF is getting greened up by

HauteGREEN

(above: new PoppyCotton pillow, Rhubarb Decor shelf and Scrapile side table) All of you savvy Inhabitat readers know that sustainable = sexy when it comes to design. However, we realize that there is

EVERYSPACE DESIGNS Arrange Shelf

One of the best finds I made at BKLYN Designs this weekend was discovering new design collective EverySpace Designs. The three designers have a portfolio of beautiful pieces which take simple, basic

UHURU DESIGN STOOLEN CHAIR

One of the best new things I saw at BKLYN Designs over the weekend was Uhuru Design’s Stoolen chair. Reminiscent of a tree stump, this awesome cylindrical seat is actually composed of recycled wood

IGLOOPLAY KIDS FURNITURE

In honor of Mother’s Day, we thought we’d cover some mom-friendly (and kid-friendly) contemporary design. If you have energetic little ones but still want to maintain a stylish design

RDAY Furniture

Next up on the BKLYN DESIGNS ticket: RDay, a Brooklyn-based boutique design house that specializes in luxury residential furniture. Designer Rob Day produces a beautiful, varied line using primarily wood,

ASWOON FURNITURE

Aswoon is a collaborative arts and architectural installation company started by Susan Woods in 2003. Their works vary from several product lines for use as screens, paneling, furniture, and space

WUD FURNITURE

It can often be said that the more complicated things get, the worse off they are: simpler is usually better. Wud Furniture Design seems to prove this philosophy with their clean, contemporary pieces.

TETRIS SHELVES!

When we ran a post on Brave Space’s Tetris shelves last year – we were inundated with traffic from Tetris lovers around the world. Many of you loved the shelves, others wrote in to complain

Coming Soon: BKLYN DESIGNS

Once again, BKLYN DESIGNS is back, kicking off New York’s Design Week 2006, and will be going on May 12-14. For three days, new and practiced designers alike will be showing their latest furniture,

ROGAN OBJECTS

If you follow eco fashion, you’ll already be familiar with Rogan Gregory’s small treasury of apparel labels, including his namesake denim line, the elegant and organic Loomstate and it’s

LOT-EK’S RECYCLED AIRPLANE LIBRARY

Move out of the way shipping containers… there’s a new kid on the block: airplane fuselages. New York’s urban architect recyclers, LOT-EK, have recently designed a library in Guadalajara

DALEX DESIGNS PAISLEY BENCH

Our friends at Core77 threw the hungry blogging pirhanas a tasty bite from Dalex Designs today — a little tool called a “toothbork” that is both a fork and a toothbrush. But I must say,

GORILLA FURNITURE DIVING BOARD TABLE

Gorillas may not be immediately associated with holistic lifestyles, but at Gorilla Furniture a holistic approach dictates the entire design process. Designers Dan Weber and Steve Wilson founded Santa

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