11 Creative Recycled Furniture Designs

March 8, 2010 by admin
Filed under Lead Story, all, designs, new

Transit Chair.

Made entirely of recycled street signs, these striking chairs look great around a kitchen table, or make a powerful statement on their own. Completely constructed, finished and sealed by hand.. link

NYC Transit Table.

Record Table Made of Recycled Classic Rock Vinyl Records.

BUGHOUSE designed this unique record table, which would fit spectacularly into your den of devil worship. It’s much more thoughtful than simply throwing them in the trash bin link

Shotgun shells Chair.

Designed by Alexander Reh, the Fully Loaded Chair is made from real shotgun shells. The solid steel chair has been stuffed with once-fired 12-guage shotgun shells. The welded steel frame is gun-blued by hand and can be loaded with many shell options. link

Screw Chair.

A surprisingly comfortable chair made from scraps of douglas fir and 3,726 drywall screws. link

Wooden Rocking Chair

This wooden rocking chair was the first design, simply assembled and so comfortable. The slats conform to the shape of your back and with the rigging rope stops has three basic positions. Sit forward on the front stop, relax and rock away or as a lounger, put your feet up to sunbathe or watch the stars. link

Pencil Chair.

Here’s one chair you definitely don’t want to sit on, made entirely of sharpened pencils. link

Dont Walk Traffic sign Chair

Spoon Chair

Some restaurants change their cutlery as often as every nine months. The Cutlery Chair utilises these hard to recycle, unwanted cutlery pieces as building blocks to create truly unique pieces of functional furniture. link

Cork Chair

Limited edition piece made from precision milled blocks of recycled wine-bottle corks. link

Stack Chair

This vinyl wall-sticker in the shape of the back of a chair marks the spot, where to stack up your magazines or newspapers and gradually becomes your STACK CHAIR. link

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10 Coolest Chair Designs

March 26, 2009 by admin
Filed under Lead Story, all, art, new, odd

1 – Chair made out of antique radiators

The radiator-chair a one-of-a-kind sculpture from Von Thiel and Co. at a shop in Toronto. At CDN$1,490, it’s a little pricier than you might want to spend on a chair that probably won’t be all that comfortable for protracted use but it’s a better world that has this radiator-cum-chair in it

2 – Amazing Folding Chair

Thischair designed by Chishen Chiu is known as FlexibleLove and is absolutely amazing. It is stretchable and is flexible enough to be formed into different shapes and arrangements

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkEDDj7TTHE

3 – Numeric Keypad Chairs

We have no idea what the story is behind this set of numeric keypad/calculator chairs is, but we do know we think it’s super cool! You’d need a pretty big living room to pull this off, since they really look their best when they’re all together in their “official” arrangement.

4 – The Chair That’s a Cube

Heinz Julen’s cube chair has a very prosaic name. It’s called Cube Chair. Made of wood, aluminum and leather, the (60 x 60 cm when closed and 83 x 70 cm when opened) chair will set you back around $3,750.

5 – The World’s First Cantilevered Chair

The Miesrolo Chair by Uros Vitas is made of wood sections strategically placed on synthetic elastomer. The result is a cantilevered chair–that rolls up like sushi–which possesses the strength to support a grown human being

6 – The Active Sitting Chair

TheSwopper is intended to help strengthen your back and abs, relieve lower back pain, and promote better posture as well as enhance circulation, spinal fluidity, and flexibility. That’s all well and good, but we like the idea of being able to bounce, sway, and tilt around in the chair like an idiot all day.

7 – Chair Suitcase

Rather than cramming your empty suitcase into the closet, why not turn it into a functional chair? That’s exactly how this nifty transforming suitcase works

8 – Serial Pop Drinks Rejoice

Hey kids, are you a serial pop drinker? Sure recycling is good but lets say for some oddball reason you collect bottles. As long as the neck is a standard size, and you collect 16 of them, you can make yourself a little stool or table. Chairs & Toys is really for children but we know a few adults that would try and pass this off next to their Herman Miller furniture.

9 – The Sheep Chair

Well, this chair is definitely one of the creepier pieces of furniture we’ve ever saw.
Not sure of the chair’s origins,but there must be a demand for it somewhere.
If you have any information about the chair, please leave a message

Update: This sheep chair originates from NIDA, national institute of dramatic art, in NSW Australia! A prop making student has made this for a furniture making project. Thanks Rachel

10 – Frank Schreiner’s Shopping Cart Chair.

This chair, titled “Consumer’s Rest” was made in 1983 by Frank Scheiner who heads the Stiletto Studios in West Berlin.

”SEVEN years ago, when I took my mother to a design shop in Berlin, she looked at all the wire-mesh furniture and said it reminded her of shopping carts,” recalled Frank Schreiner, a designer who heads Stiletto Studios in West Berlin. ”That’s how I came up with the idea.”

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