The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) is in NYC (May 14-17); open to the Trade over the weekend and public on Monday and Tuesday. If you head over there, be sure to check out Brooklyn-based Think Fabricate - they create home furnishings that incorporate sustainable materials as much as possible and look great in an urban pad or weekend retreat.
(above) This credenza is from their original Stepping Stones collection, which has just been extended and now includes:
- Stepping Out, a multi-purpose indoor-outdoor chair & ottoman (below)
- Stepping Up an upholstered chair in Maharam fabric
- Stepping Wood Grain, a chair & ottoman with stripes of bamboo and walnut (more…)
This week’s kicky collection of sustainable and chic fashion finds:
(above) Jewelry designer Tamra Gentry designed this eye-catching Fordite MINI Necklace which features a small piece of rare, recycled Fordite*. The vibrantly swirling colors of the Fordite chip partner with a retro peace symbol in sterling silver to make a stunning little fashion statement. $125 @ the tamra gentry design studio’s supermarket web store. (more…)
Dutch designer Mieke Meyer has developed a process that transforms used newsprint, misprints and print over-runs into a material that possesses many of the characteristics of the wood from which it came, including grain and structural strength.
Meyer created the material and process while studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven in cooperation with the Dutch company Vij5.
A few pieces from Vij5′s KrantHout Collection are pictured above and below. The pieces were created by a variety of designers. In April 2011 the first prototypes were presented at an exhibit in Milan. (more…)
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