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eco design, sustainable design, salvaged furniture, eco furniture, London, London Design Festival, Shoreditch Design Triangle, East London Furniture, Jaguar Shoes

East London Furniture completely transformed bar and gallery space DreamBagsJaguarShoes. Fixtures, tables and seating were all made from salvaged materials – including British Gypsum pallets, wood from a construction site, and pine scraps from a lumber yard.

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The bar was given a facelift with lumber yard scrap wood screen printed with illustrations from Alessandro Mistrulli.

eco design, sustainable design, salvaged furniture, eco furniture, London, London Design Festival, Shoreditch Design Triangle, Lee Broom

Lee Broom turned his East London showroom into The Crystal Bulb Shop – a general store complete with a sawdust floor – using vintage and upcycled materials. He’s incorporated reclaimed parts of an English pub, previously used in another incarnation for his successful show in Milan.

eco design, sustainable design, salvaged furniture, eco furniture, London, London Design Festival, Shoreditch Design Triangle, Plumen, Boskke

The Old Shoreditch Station featured living chandeliers with low-energy Plumen lighting from Hulger and Sky Planters from Boskke. Boskke launched the Sky Planter Clear, a translucent planter that shows the soil, roots and water.

eco design, sustainable design, salvaged furniture, eco furniture, London, London Design Festival, Shoreditch Design Triangle, Momosan Shop, Objects for Use

At Momosan Shop, shape-based products in the “Hexagon” show included plinths made from scrap plywood and reissued cardboard stools originally designed by Riki Watanabe in 1965.

eco design, sustainable design, salvaged furniture, eco furniture, London, London Design Festival, Shoreditch Design Triangle, Rupert Blanchard

New work from Rupert Blanchard included cabinets and drawers using salvaged materials. The horse lamp is vintage kitsch.

eco design, sustainable design, salvaged furniture, eco furniture, London, London Design Festival, Shoreditch Design Triangle, Rupert Blanchard

Rupert Blanchard’s new seating collection was made by local manufacturers with materials sourced from the area. The “Actual Makers” signs were found when he first moved in to his studio.

sustainable art, eco art, thumbtacks, creative reuse, London artist, Duncan MacAskill, Ally Capellino, eco design, local production

Duncan MacAskill’s portraits and abstract artworks made with thumbtacks and push pins made a colorful display in Ally Cappellino’s shop.

eco design, sustainable design, salvaged furniture, eco furniture, London, London Design Festival, Shoreditch Design Triangle, Tord Boontje

Tord Boontje Studio presented Cherry Pip Jewelry with Swarovski crystal (incorporating cherry pits brought back from Sweden) at the Squirrels Electro Garden Party.

eco design, sustainable design, salvaged furniture, eco furniture, London, London Design Festival, Shoreditch Design Triangle, Tord Boontje, Lightweight Luminaire

Tord Boontje also launched this Lightweight set of Luminaires – a new lighting collection self-produced in Tord Boontje Studio and sold exclusively in the East London shop. The base of the lamps are copper baskets that you’re meant to fill with rocks or other heavy things, saving the cost and waste of transporting a heavy lamp base.

eco design, sustainable design, salvaged furniture, eco furniture, London, London Design Festival, Shoreditch Design Triangle, Gallery Fumi

Gallery Fumi’s latest exhibition Prostheses and Innesti is a collection of works initially created by construction workers on Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan’s building sites, and then reinterpreted with gentle interventions by the studio.

eco design, sustainable design, salvaged furniture, eco furniture, London, London Design Festival, Shoreditch Design Triangle, Gallery Fumi

The raw wooden pieces were taken directly from the construction sites and adapted with materials like gold, marble, glass and textiles.

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Photos by Charlene Lam for Inhabitat