Give your Garden Mushrooms and a Squeeze from Cilicon Faytory
I’d bet the two most popular materials in hot, design-savvy climates are concrete and silicone. Read more…
Posts Tagged ‘coffee table’
Catch the Cersaie Bug: Urquiola’s Table Collection for Mutina
Stand in front of Patricia Urquiola during one of her press interviews and you’ll have trouble just scribbling notes or snapping photos behind your lens. In fact, her down-to-earth, Read more…
Pigeontail and Voos Want You to Feed Papervore
At my current locale of 9,200 ft. in the Colorado Mountains, the preferred method of document disposal is the good old reliable and potentially poisonous American trash fire. But I jest a bit for effect—in truth, we have a charming backyard campfire ring strictly limited to wood and paper. Read more…
Toby Howes Orator Coffee Table
Toby Howes graduated from Kings College in 1990 with a degree in Ecology. He spent 13 years working with various organizations studying ways to lessens man’s impact on the environment. From this experience he learned that the smallest detail Read more…
Sleek and Green Furniture by Arktura
As I search the design world for sustainably minded products and materials, it becomes ever clearer that there are many many approaches to designing a greener future. The trends we see most regularly use recycled wood and repurposed post-consumer products, which are often beautifully designed works of art, Read more…
Counter Evolution: Bowling Lanes Evolve into Eco-Conscious Furniture
Counter Evolution is a new company (2007) that was started by musician and avid wood worker Jim Malone. While working as a cartoonist and children’s television producer in Manhattan, Malone spent three years building a log cabin home Read more…
Samuel Chan’s Motley Crew for Wildspirit
Belgian design company Wildspirit is a firm after my own heart. Their adorable mascot Happy, a black and white spaniel with droopy eyes and a silky coat, is featured prominently on their website: “By purchasing objects from the Wildspirit collection you contribute indirectly to the daily education of Happy.” Read more…
REHAB Vintage Breathes New Life into Used Office Equipment
As an architect I have a real soft spot for the flat file. For the non-architects, a flat file is a practical storage system shaped to hold full-size drawings laid out flat, to prevent curling that comes with the stereotypical roll of drawings. Read more…
Tribute to Childhood: Turno Coffee Table by Jules & Jeremy
Not everyone gets to have the famed “best friend” of childhood. Fewer still get to keep the schooldays sidekick. I count myself lucky to maintain even a sketchy friendship with my college roommate, Read more…
Flip, Flop, or Slouch on KI’s Sela Collection
KI recently introduced their seating collection intended for college students. According to the designers, Patrick Fricke and John Blomstrom, Sela began with an oversized chair for non-prescriptive seating. Read more…
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