A bitter truth – the furniture you use at home or office negatively influences the environment. This may not be something you would consider upgrading every not and then. After all, much of your furniture is probably wood – a ...
This year at Salone del Mobile, companies and designers from around the world showcased their best designs and products exhibiting the power of design and immense potential of utilizing recycled waste in the design industry. The Swedish design studio Front also showcased ...
Benjamin Hubert from Layer, British industrial design agency has collaborated with Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat’s co-owned recycled textile brand Really to create Shift, a flexible shelving system (wall-mounted) to be launched at the Milan Design Week 2018. True to its ...
Humanscale, a New York-based company known for its wonderfully ergonomic office chairs, has unveiled their latest green design project made in partnership with the California-based company Bureo. Dubbed Smart Ocean, it is a sustainable and ergonomic task chair made out ...
The Italian designer duo Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Amsterdam-based design studio Formafantasma are utilizing e-waste to create a range of functional objects as part of their Ore Streams project. This collection consists of recycled aluminum office furniture including ...
Furniture and accessories designed from industrial objects bring a very rustic, and at times steampunkish appeal to the interiors. When we talk of furniture, the possibilities of upcycling old industrial stuff into tables or chairs seems like a viable option. ...
Refitting artist Rodney Allen Trice of New York-based design studio TOMT transforms old discarded products into useful and beautiful furnishings that motivate people to give an end to the growing disposable culture. A few examples of his unique work are ...
Retail startup Pentatonic has raised £4.3mn to fund its mission to turn trash such as smartphone glass, aluminum cans, CDs, and other household plastic waste into useful products for the home. The increasing need, as well as demand for eco-friendly ...
Cow dung and urine are said to have medicinal properties. It is widely used as a traditional fertilizer and a building material in India, as well as some other developing countries. In recent years it also has arisen as a ...
Šimon Kern, a young student designer from Slovakia has come up with a unique approach to recycle natural waste for creating green furniture. As part of his studies at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, he created a ...
