Malafor: Design More With Less
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
Bricks Sofa by Robert Bronwasser for Palau, Furniture as it Should Be
Bricks by Robert Bronwasser for Palau (more images below)
Here is a furniture company that makes simply good design: long lasting, both emotionally (through timeless design) and technologically (good quality), as well as made from environmentally friendly materials. The Dutch company Palau develops and produces in the Netherlands and has a pretty impressive collection of domestic and office furniture. Palau uses FSC-certified wood, fabrics with the EU Eco Flower label and bio oils that …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Sparkling Chair Made of PET and Air, Just Like a Water Bottle! by Marcel Wanders
The most eco-friendly material to make furniture is probably the one we don’t use (no material, no ecological footprint so to say)… so what about air? We have featured a series of inflatable items, such as inflatable solar panels, an inflatable house or glowing inflatable furniture, because the simple fact that they use a minimum amount …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Design Academy Eindhoven is asking questions!
Water Fountain and Personal Fresh Air. Images by Design Academy Eindhoven
One of the shows that stood out this year at the Milan Furniture Fair was the Design Academy Eindhoven’s Question exhibition at the up and coming district Ventura Lambrate. With all this excess of design and the various crisis going on (environmental, social, economic,…), it is nice to see that one group sat down and asked questions about the role of design. And they encouraged visitors to <a href="http://design…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Live Bio-resin Performance by Breaded Escalope (Video)
There are plenty of cocktail parties at the Furniture Fair in Milan, but this one was quite different. All the way out in Zona Bovisa we visited the show Meet My Project and were greeted at a bar that served fresh… bioresin products! The 3 designers from Breaded Escalope Design Studio in Vienna were not mixing drinks but small products behind their Shakin’ Products Bar. The products were made in the same way as their Original Stool: by shaking and rolling the moulds the bioresin hardens in about 10 minutes and out pops a finished piece….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Saved by Droog (Part II)
Image by Sergio Carratalá
We were very curious to see what the 14 designers, invited by Droog to save 5135 items from liquidation sales and other leftovers, came up with at the Milan Furniture Fair. So we hiked out to their temporarily exhibition space during the Salone and found a very droogish space, full of intriguing objects. Everything was for sale, and Droog published photos of the proud new owners on their web, like these happy guys below….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Bike-Powered Lamp by Gionata Gatto
Photo copyright Sergio Carratalá
One of our favourite places at this year’s Milan furniture fair was definitely the Gallery Rossana Orlandi, a truly magical place. It is there, alongside FormaFantsama, that we discovered the Bike Lamp by Gionata Gatto, an Italian designer who based his studio Atuppertu in the Netherlands. The Lamps are so fresh from the production line, we are not even sure the big one is called the Bike Lamp, and not even the designer…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Autarchy by Studio Formafantasma
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For a real touch of Italy, go and visit the installation “Autarchy” by Studio Formafantasma at this week’s Furniture Fair in Milan. The project celebrates an autonomous way of producing goods, using bio-materials. It is a fresh take on crafts and design, tradition and the uncomplicated in everyday life. This show definitely stands in contrast to most of the other stuff we see at the Salone in Milan this week….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Ronen Kadushin’s LYTA Chair: lightweight and 100% recyclable
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What makes a chair eco-friendly? Well, it takes quite a lot of things such as recyclability, reduced weight, longevity, both technically and emotionally, and the possibility to repair it before tossing it away. An eco-friendly chair cannot be thrown out because of a broken leg, or a wine stain. It seems that Israeli-born, Berlin-based designer Ronen Kadushin has archived these requirements in his LYTA chair. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Angels, Reindeers, Pigs and Christmas Trees; sustainable wood decoration by Lovi
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Matteria, good design+smart materials online store, suggest a spicy Christmas this year, without forgetting the environment. Apart from the gorgeous cork advent candle holder, the cosy Finnish red felt slippers, and giftbags to spoil your loved ones, Matteria features a range of <a href=”http://www.matteriashop.com/product_info.php?cPa…Read the full story on TreeHugger