Made from two capsule-like felt shells -one in color to direct light and the other in white to diffuse it.
Renewable + Recyclable + Compostable.
Available in evening Gray, Camel and Kiwi
By Mio
Mio products use materials that can be easily recycled. Materials, processes and manufacturers are carefully matched for optimal efficiency and environmental benefits. They only work with companies that adhere to socially responsible business practices.
Animal’s bones are usualy considered as waste by the food industry. This back to basics project (weren’t we using bones as tools a long time ago?) by french designer Felipe Ribon is proposing a very interesting way of using this unusual material.
A spatula, a pick , a swizzle stick and a mixer.
A pen
Glasses
Atlanta based Shiner produces stylish eco-friendly furniture designed by Joe Manus.
Why eco-friendly?
All materials are selected with environmental responsibility in mind. Steel is 85% recycled. Cardboard is 100% recycled. Plywood comes from responsibly farmed, new growth timbers. Hardwoods come from drop cuts from board manufacturing that were destined for the landfill.
All goods are cut using CNC technology, which means maximum yield because of close nesting of parts on a panel, low labor overhead and low energy equation overall.
All leftover materials from cut panels go to fuel the timber kiln that dries our hardwoods or to be used in the production of biodiesel.
The Ribchair – Birch Plywood & Lacquer
The Friend chair & Ottoman – Hardwood, Carbonsteel and Tung oil
Maltese coffee table – Birch Plywood, Carbon Steel & Lacquer.
Sit Sit chair – Stacked Birch Plywood & Lacquer.
via desiretoinspire
Designed by Frebch designer Christian Desile – produced by Belgian company Vange
« The ‘Desile’ sitting system emerges from the basic shape of a drawing. The incredible simplicity of its form entails a single numeric process. In using bamboo and recycled PET; the ‘Desile’ is a true ecological product highlighting environmental sustainability. Thanks to its two-way opening functionality (which also allows for a ‘BIKOLOR’ production), the Desile is a chair that lends itself to the most functional stacking system available as it folds completely flat (100 bamboo chairs = 2 linear metres). »
Nice mix of retro design and modern specifications (mp3 jack and AM/FM dial), these handcrafted radios comes in 3 sizes. They are made of ebony, mahogany and pine.
Each tree used to create this radios had one replanted in its place!
Designed by Singgih Kartono for Magno.
Buy it here: Anthropologie.
Swedish design company LOTS recieves first prize for the OPENbike concept in The City of Copenhagen open design competition. 127 entries from five continents participated in the competition. The OPENbike concept have been developed in cooperation with Koucky & partners and Green Idea Factory.
The Dutch version of the finnish sauna. You do not have to have a large garden or a great deal of space to accommodate it: the dressing room and the bathing space are integrated in a single large closet made of larch wood. The specially designed joints expand when they become wet, ensuring that the bath closet remains fully watertight. The wood, taken from a single larch tree, gives out a pleasing pine aroma when the bath is filled. The doors at both the front and the back of the closet can be opened. You hang your clothes above the bath, so they are gently steamed while you are bathing.
Designed by Anna van der Lei, freshly graduated from the Design Academy of Eindhoven.
This gorgeous cottage home design located in the resort setting of Mar Azul, on the shore of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was developed for low maintenance, low cost and low environmental impact with an eco friendly cottage appeal. Designed by Argentina’s BAK Architects.
via DigsDigs.
3 magnificient examples of the use of bamboo in modern achitecture by Kengo Kuma & Associates.
Villa. Great (Bamboo) Wall Beijing, China 2002
Villa. Great (Bamboo) Wall Beijing, China 2002
Exhibition facility. Shizuoka, Japan. 2004
Restaurant. Cha Cha moon Whiteleys, Queensway, London, UK 2009
By US designers Bookhou
