Beasty Boys’ NO SLEEP TIL BROOKLYN kept spinning round my brain as we road tripped to Bklyn Designs last Saturday.  You could lose a checkered cab in one of those pot holes; it’s no wonder everyone bikes around there.

Making our way around St Ann’s warehouse we saw some pretty cool Brooklyn-based designs, not all was eco-based, but there was plenty to love. Here are a few (of the many) stand-outs.

• Sustainable and sophisticated kids’ furniture at Argington and Roberto Gil’s Casa Kids.  Cribs, bunk beds, dressers, toy boxes, chairs and tables — everything the little ones need, beautifully crafted, 100% non-toxic and built to last.  Colorful, and fun kids’ designs also @ boo-coup, constructed of bamboo plywood. Sleek organic forms and materials at play @ iglooplay.
• Having featured their work many times, it was nice to finally say Hi to a couple of the guys from sustainable uhuru – they upcycle found objects and give them new life.  Brooklyn Table, a collaboration between IceStone and UHURU, a veritable feast for the eyes.
• Work-in-progress (legs to come), Enso Table by Eric Manigian – a scene stealer, (last image below).
• Eco Systems went all transformer by creating a dining table that converts to seating.
• Flavor Paper served up fresh and tasty hand printed wallpaper designs using water based inks.
• Reclaimed Collaborative Brooklyn creates formidable furniture from discarded slabs, blocks and chunks of lumber salvaged from old buildings and construction sites along the east coast.
• Andrea Summerton’s pretty and functional hand-made tables and lamps @ ALSDesigns
• Glass works like the Contact Lens Water Basin, Leaf accessory or Waterfall Bookends @ FurthurDesign
• New collections From the Source and the Burn Series, (reinventing burned wood as polished concrete surfaces), from Oso Industries.
  

It was nice to be able to kick back in eco chic style at TidesHome.

Some snaps, below…From top, and left to right: UHURU Standard Chairs from Louis XVI chair backs; Through Chaise Thomas Stern/Pratt Student (310.500.7970); UM’s Nebu Chandelier -250 antique wine glasses turned upside down on an aluminum rack frame; Matthew Fairbank Design handmade (but not eco, tsk!) Rhodes chaise lounge; Eric Manigian Enso Table.