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Best of New York Design Week and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair 2011 (Slideshow)

May 31, 2011

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Every time I come to New York for Design Week and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), I learn so much, meet so many people, and get so energized. This is, of course, the big show, the largest furniture fair …

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Update on the Element: Staying In New York’s Green Hotel

May 20, 2011

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After reading Emma’s review of the Westin Element Times Square in New York , I thought I would try a stay in the so-called green hotel during ICFF and see what it was like. But I also wanted to see how green it really was; I have…

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Pratt Presents "Perpetual Motion" Furniture Designs

May 18, 2011

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Students from Pratt Institute often steal the show at ICFF; two years ago you couldn’t get near their booth, clearly the hit of the show. This year the work was a bit more subtle. The industrial design program partnered with …

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Flatpack Wonders From The University of Oregon

May 16, 2011

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As always, the student work at ICFF is the most interesting. Students at The University of Oregon’s product design school developed a line of flatpack furniture; some of them look like they might barely carry the weight, bu…

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Design Goes On The 100 Mile Diet

May 16, 2011

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The 100 Mile Diet has been a meme on TreeHugger for a few years now, so it is fitting that that is the theme of a joint project of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) on the east coast and the University of Washing…

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Best of Show: The Wästberg Durapulp Lamp

May 16, 2011

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A few years ago, looking for new markets for its sustainably harvested wood, the Swedish forestry company Södra developed Durapulp, a mix of wood pulp and polylactide, or PLA, the thermoplastic made from corn or sugarcane. The…

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Now You Can 3D Print Ceramics At Shapeways

May 15, 2011

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These little bunnies are not only cute, but they are the harbinger of things to come. They are 3D printed in ceramics in a new process: layer by layer, a binder is deposited on a bed of ceramic powder. When all the layers ar…

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It’s A Barbecue! No, It’s a Planter! No, It’s A…..

May 15, 2011

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We’re at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York, looking at the latest in green and small space design.

A perennial favourite at ICFF is Black + Blum, a “a creative partnership steeped in innovation”…

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Off To ICFF To Find The Best in Green Design

May 13, 2011

Your editor Collin and I are off to New York for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and New York Design Week to find the best in green design, small space design, and this year, checking out design for kids for Parentables. There is so mu…

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1 Set of Ceramic Speakers, 10 Artists. Including David Lynch, Tobias Wong (Slideshow)

June 3, 2010

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We are big fans of erstwhile TreeHugger contributor and designer Joey Roth, and of his elegant ceramic speakers, reviewed on TreeHugger here. They are simple and elegant, made of natural materials and built to last. But Joey can’t leave well enough alone, so he gave a set of speakers to collaborators “to modify and reshape using their own visual language…to work with a musician they know to produce a track to accompany their speaker interpretations.”

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