Posted on 28 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Image Credit: Sancal
Located in Murcia, south-east Spain, Sancal is one of the few furniture companies still left in the country that manufacture locally and have not taken their production elsewhere where labor is cheaper and regulations often weaker. Their main material is FSC-certified wood as well as other natural materials. The pieces are hand-made but they don’t look it. This season’s theme which they presented at the Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 27 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Photo: B. Alter, the Pod
Travelling around the London Design Festival, one sees the endless interest that chairs hold for new designers.
Here is a survey of some of the best, and oddest, on view. Starting with odd is the Pod, but it really is very comfortable. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 07 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Photos: The Divine Chair Company
Vintage furniture is coming back in a big way, with furniture designers finding new ways to update old-fashioned finds. Frustrated with being unable to find an affordable vintage chair, much less one she liked, New York-based designer Kitty McBride started The Divine Chair Company, taking antique chairs and re-painting with bold colours and re-upholstering them with her signature fabrics — resulting in eccentric yet beautiful contrasts….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 09 May 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Photo: lula dot
Grand Designs is a massive home show covering interiors, gardens, home improvements and renovations. Its public face, Kevin McCloud, is a national treasure. A designer, developer and huge t.v. personality, he has been pushing and popularizing the green and environmental angle of housing for years, way before anyone else.
Every year he picks his Gre…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 17 February 2011 by Sustainability Digest
The T-shirt Chair by Maria Westerberg
Swedish designer Maria Westerberg‘s T-shirt Chair won this year’s Green Furniture Award. According to the jury, “the chair weaves together a meaningful story using worn textiles. This up-scaling of the classical ‘rag rug‘ becomes an unique way of upholstering. T-shirts from friends together with other textiles such as grandma’s curtains, the favourite but now worn out jeans etc, melt together visua…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 17 June 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Using marble is generally not very eco-friendly; you have to dig it out, leaving a dead hole in the landscape, it takes plenty of water and energy to cut it, and, is very heavy to transport. Moreover, the marble industry creates tonnes of waste when cutting and processing the stones. Nutcreatives, a Spanish design studio, have solved the latter problem locally, killing two birds with one stone. The solution? -A bench called Relaja, which means ‘relax’ in Spanish….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 26 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
All photo credits: Troy Holden
Today there was new space added to the Twitter HQ, doubling their size. Designed by the lovely and talented Sara Morishige Williams (@sara), the newest spaces are consistent with the philosophy of the existing offices that opened last November (which we wrote about). Sara (and Twitter) wanted to create a healthy environment, so she chose no-VOC paints, and furnishings and materials that are low and no-VOCs. She used m…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 25 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Image courtesy of Asher Dunn
American designer, Asher Dunn has recently launched his own line of furniture which takes a contemporary approach to locally manufactured and designed furniture. All of the items have been made using FSC-certified materials and low-VOC finishes, but even more interesting is the fact that they are manufactured right in Rhode Island. On that note, most of the names for the products have been derived from the names of locations in the area….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 25 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Photos: Courtesy of Alotof.
Collaborations between designers and artisan communities often lead to interesting results. We’ve seen some of that with the pieces of furniture by Oficina Nomade, the ceramic objects by Imaginario Pernambucano, and the pal…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 20 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
These Polish designer, who we discovered at this year’s Milan furniture fair, and who’s colourful tree trunk stools have been featured previously, know how to create more with less. Dematerialisation is one way of designing eco-friendlier objects- it saves resources from being used up and transported around, and waste from being generated. Plus these objects are highly functional as well as good looking- what more can you ask for? Here our two favourites from the new collecti…Read the full story on TreeHugger
