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NewspaperWood: Incredible Furnishings and Products Made From Recycled Newspaper

NewspaperWood: Incredible Furnishings and Products Made From Recycled Newspaper

Designer Mieke Meijer gives old newspapers a new life as furniture, decorative items, and even jewelry! Her NewspaperWood material is made from stacks and stacks of discarded newspapers, and it can be

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Hockenheimer Stool Transforms a Stack of Old Magazines into a Cool Chair

Hockenheimer Stool Transforms a Stack of Old Magazines into a Cool Chair

Lately we’ve seen some innovative and inspiring ways that designers are upcyling old periodicals. German designers NJU Studio have created a way for consumers to take their own magazines and turn them

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Retro Modern Gives Mid-Century Furniture a Recycled Makeover

Retro Modern Gives Mid-Century Furniture a Recycled Makeover

Why purchase a brand new piece of furniture, when your grandmother’s old mid-century sideboard can undergo the ultimate makeover and be recycled into a masterpiece ready to last another 50 years?

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13 Ricrea Recycles Shoe Manufacturing Waste into Colorful “Pouf” Seating

13 Ricrea Recycles Shoe Manufacturing Waste into Colorful “Pouf” Seating

A seat with a footprint – and we’re talking the good kind! Designed to make use of all the latex waste produced by the Italian shoe industry each year, 13 Ricerca transforms leftover rolls of

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Colorful New Bench Gives Old Skateboards New Trick

Colorful New Bench Gives Old Skateboards New Trick

We have covered skateboard-inspired furniture in the past, so we were excited to see this cool new bench from Pennsylvania-based company, Deckstool. Started by Jason Podlaski after his brother tasked him

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Recycled Bike Chain Chair Really Knows How to Rock

Recycled Bike Chain Chair Really Knows How to Rock

The “Chain Rocker” is a very distinctive rocking chair made of recycled bicycle chains and tires. BRC Designs layered these reclaimed materials upon a steel support structure which is, itself,

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Ghost Furniture Boudoir Set is Dead Furniture Resurrected!

Ghost Furniture Boudoir Set is Dead Furniture Resurrected!

If you like Philippe Starck’s Louis Ghost Chair, we think you’ll also enjoy this vintage boudoir set that’s ghastly not because it’s clear, but because it was raised from the dead!

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Colorful Drops Pouf Seating Made of Recycled Upholstery Material

Colorful Drops Pouf Seating Made of Recycled Upholstery Material

This delightful Drops pouf is a chair made of an inner tube covered with recycled upholstery material. It was inspired by the process behind making tassels (bunching together lots of strips of leftover

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Upcycled Ottoman Made From Coffee Bags

Upcycled Ottoman Made From Coffee Bags

This smart Upcycle Ottoman by Gus* Modern is made of repurposed jute bags that were once used to carry organic fair trade certified coffee. Produced in a limited quantity, each piece is unique and shows

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Lost & Found Upcycled Furniture

Lost & Found Upcycled Furniture

What once was lost is now found in Lost & Found’s Upcycled Furniture, a collection of stools and tables. Designed by UK-based design studio, &made, each piece features a brightly-colored

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LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL: Zoe Murphy Upcycled Furniture

LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL: Zoe Murphy Upcycled Furniture

Young British design graduate Zoe Murphy is a rising star we discovered at this month’s TENT London design exhibit. Inspired by her seaside home of Margate, Zoe has created a collection of fabulous

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