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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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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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Reused Bicycle Inner Tubes Woven into Cool Recycled Bedframe Bench

Reused Bicycle Inner Tubes Woven into Cool Recycled Bedframe Bench

Designer Ivars Gansons has turned an old bed frame and a stack of bicycle inner tubes into a beautiful recycled street bench. Each section was inventively created with reused objects interwoven to form a

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Salvaged Chinese Riverboats Become Sturdy Shipwood Furniture Designs

Salvaged Chinese Riverboats Become Sturdy Shipwood Furniture Designs

Furniture designer Logan Komorowski salvages old Chinese riverboats and reinvents them as beautiful pieces of furniture laden with history and meaning. Dubbed Shipwood, the pieces Komorowski creates

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Manoteca Reinvents Aged Wood Doors as Beautiful Desks

Manoteca Reinvents Aged Wood Doors as Beautiful Desks

Manoteca’s stunning tables are functional works of art, constructed entirely from abandoned wood doors. Each aged and worn door is reinvented and assembled along with other recycled objects and

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Designers Breathe New Life Into Old Chairs at ‘Chairs for Charity’

Designers Breathe New Life Into Old Chairs at ‘Chairs for Charity’

Before you throw away that wobbly old stool, or that faded easy chair with Aunt Maggie’s favorite pattern on it, consider giving it a second chance at life with a good sanding, some new screws, and

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Manchester Wood Makes Sustainable Wooden Furniture Out of Local Materials

Manchester Wood Makes Sustainable Wooden Furniture Out of Local Materials

Manchester Wood is a family business that makes built-to-last furniture from local and sustainable wood. Founded in 1976 in Manchester, Vermont, the company produces American-made solid wood furniture

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Campanas’ Awesome Bookshelf is a Mosaic of Recycled Scrap Wood

Campanas’ Awesome Bookshelf is a Mosaic of Recycled Scrap Wood

Inspired by their award-winning Favela chair, Humberto Campana and his brother created this spectacular bookshelf from reclaimed pieces of scrap wood. Chaotic and cluttered, yet unexpectedly harmonious,

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M DESIGN’s Builds Quirky New Designs Out of Trashed Furniture

M DESIGN’s Builds Quirky New Designs Out of Trashed Furniture

As the official “Moving Day” of Montreal, Canada, every July 1st the city streets find themselves littered with abandoned furniture. To save these pieces from dumpster doom, designer

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The TIND Table Melds Bamboo and Recycled Metal into Something Marvelous

The TIND Table Melds Bamboo and Recycled Metal into Something Marvelous

If you’re looking for a truly unique side table for your bedroom or living room, look no further than the TIND. Designed by Nils Finne, this smartly designed piece of furniture has a high visual

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Colorful Retro Armchair Made from a Recycled 1968 4L Renault

Colorful Retro Armchair Made from a Recycled 1968 4L Renault

This is probably the most interesting use of a out of commission vehicle we’ve ever seen. Created by Cyril Latapy, this colorful retro armchair was actually once a 1968 4L Renault! With a full front

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Refrigerator Door Table is an Example of “Cool” Recycled Furniture

Refrigerator Door Table is an Example of “Cool” Recycled Furniture

What happens when you give two architecture students who desperately need a drafting table a refrigerator door? A fridge door coffee table, obviously. Made by Arjun Rathi and a friend out of a vintage

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Koff Designs Builds Kickass Tables Out of Locally Sourced Reclaimed Wood

Koff Designs Builds Kickass Tables Out of Locally Sourced Reclaimed Wood

The designers at Koff Designs make limited edition entryway and coffee tables out of salvaged wood right from their own neighborhood. The piece seen above is made from a slab of exquisite reclaimed white

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Pepe Heykoop Transforms Leather Scraps into Sensuous Furniture Collection

Pepe Heykoop Transforms Leather Scraps into Sensuous Furniture Collection

Dutch furniture designer Pepe Heykoop recently unveiled a new line that recycles remnant leather scraps and old furniture into provocative new pieces. Appropriately named “Skin,” the collection

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BRC Polishes Remnant Concrete to Create Glossy Custom Tables

BRC Polishes Remnant Concrete to Create Glossy Custom Tables

We have been digging Benjamin Rollins Caldwell’s innovative furniture – namely his vintage circuit board tables- but we’ve also become entranced with his new “Money Tables.” Made from

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Benedicte de Blavous Moubarak Turns Old Lebanese Architecture into Beautiful Furnishings

Benedicte de Blavous Moubarak Turns Old Lebanese Architecture into Beautiful Furnishings

French designer Benedicte de Blavous Moubarak is employing marginalized people in Lebanon to transform architectural salvage into exciting concepts in interior design. Many of the traditional houses of

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Mike Bouchet Turns Shopping Carts Into Cool Lounge Chairs

Mike Bouchet Turns Shopping Carts Into Cool Lounge Chairs

Shopping carts are rarely offered a second life after being spent transporting our groceries, but Frankfurt-based designer Mike Bouchet saw the hidden potential of the common cart. By cutting the basket

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Affordable Accommodation for the Eco-Conscious Traveller in Buenos Aires

Affordable Accommodation for the Eco-Conscious Traveller in Buenos Aires

If you’re an eco-conscious traveller planning to visit Buenos Aires on a tight budget, don’t worry, you don’t have to leave your green lifestyle behind. The Eco-Pampa Hostel located in

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BRC Designs’ Binary Table-01 is Made Entirely From Vintage Circuit Boards

BRC Designs’ Binary Table-01 is Made Entirely From Vintage Circuit Boards

If you have a soft spot for vintage circuitry then you’ll love these spectacular tables made from outdated electronics. Designed by Benjamin Rollins Caldwell of BRC Designs, the Binary Collection is

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Mati Karmin’s Explosive Mine Furniture is the Bomb

Mati Karmin’s Explosive Mine Furniture is the Bomb

Other furniture makers might say that their work is the bomb, but few can say that their creations are actually made from bombs. Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin is the exception – his mind-blowing

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Whit McLeod’s Folding Chair Handcrafted from 100% Salvaged Oak Wine Barrels

Whit McLeod’s Folding Chair Handcrafted from 100% Salvaged Oak Wine Barrels

Handcrafted from 100% salvaged 70-gallon oak wine barrels, each one of these steamer deck chair-inspired wine barrel folding chairs is individually numbered with the name of the winery branded under the

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Coffin Couches: Sofas Made from Recycled Caskets Put the Fun in Funerary

Coffin Couches: Sofas Made from Recycled Caskets Put the Fun in Funerary

We’re dying to get our hands on these luxurious coffin couches, but it turns out we don’t have to go that far. Coffin Couches makes their posh sofas from recycled 18 gauge steel coffins that

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Design By Them Transforms Used Milk Containers Into Butter Furniture

Design By Them Transforms Used Milk Containers Into Butter Furniture

Have you ever sat on a milk container? The innovative Australian design team at Design By Them have made this possible! Apart from designing one very funky minimalist piece of furniture named the Butter

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Meltdown PP Tube 1: A Futuristic Chair Made from Recycled Plumbing Tubes

Meltdown PP Tube 1: A Futuristic Chair Made from Recycled Plumbing Tubes

Meltdown PP Tube 1 is a striking chair designed and created by British Designer Tom Price. The chair is made of recycled plumbing tubes that have been heated and pressed together to form a seat. The ends

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Emilano Godoy’s Shiny Snowjob Chair Is Made from Recycled Candy Wrappers

Emilano Godoy’s Shiny Snowjob Chair Is Made from Recycled Candy Wrappers

When we caught a glimpse of Emiliano Godoy’s Snowjob Chair over at Designboom, we couldn’t help but be entranced by its spectacular sheen. A modern piece built with FSC certified wood with a

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