The world has witnessed remarkable engineering and design feats in the past few years. With consumerism at its peak, there is cut-throat competition between manufacturers, designers, and even retailers while making and selling raw items finished into designer furniture like ...
‘Betty with a Door’ by Etsy shop, LockengeloetHamburg, is a contemporary coffee table made from an upcycled oil barrel. While it’s quite rare to see oil barrel being transformed in such a stylish way, the given furniture piece boasts a ...
Hungarian Workshop has come up with one of the best upcycling ideas we’ve seen so far. Their stunning Bourbon Barrel Adirondack Chair has been made from old barrels used for aging the bourbon. Wouldn’t it wonderful to enjoy your bourbon ...
Breathing new life into an old piece of furniture can be done even with a fresh coat of paint; however, upcycling furniture is a totally different concept. It is like giving new form and functionality to old furniture. For example ...
Spanish outdoor furnishings maker Vondom has launched its subsidiary, the Revolution, dedicated to making designer furniture out of recycled ocean plastic. Vondom Revolution is collecting fishing nets and other waste plastic from the Balearic Islands and creating long-lasting material to ...
German airline Lufthansa knows the value of its airplanes and the effort it takes to dispose of them, possibly why it has repurposed a decommissioned plane into furniture and other items. They have launched the Lufthansa Upcycling Collection comprising travel ...
Most of us have seen table fans with fan guards. But did it ever occur to you that it can be used as a side table as well? You’d say that’s a strange way to look at a table fan, ...
Bicycle sharing companies have made a huge presence in China, but the trend has also brought along the problem of disposing of the old, broken bikes. These discarded bikes are usually dumped onto streets or in graveyards that are filling ...
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company aka Airbus has launched its own online shop “A Piece of Sky”. The shop sells one-of-a-kind furniture and lighting products made from end-of-life aircraft parts. Airbus employees Anaïs Mazaleyrat and Jérémy Brousseau came up ...
Paul Firbank and Lizzie Gossling of London-based The Rag and Bone Man transforms vintage machinery, vehicle parts and scrap into lighting, furniture, accessories and other bespoke objects. Whether it is an aircraft radial engine turned into a chandelier or some ...
