How-To: Mushroom Ottoman
Make your own fun, whimsical mushroom ottoman with thrifted sweaters and an oversized log!
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New Building Material from Textile Clippings
Fase #3 uses a new substance called Demodé. It uses a starch-based binder to turn textile waste from factories in Santiago, Chile into a useable building material.
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Making Furniture with Magnetism and Gravity
According to the bio on his website, Jólan van der Wiel admires objects which show experimental discovery and are translated into a functional design. His Gravity Stools demonstrate that perfectly. Using a custom magnetic material and a machine with large magnets to stretch the legs off the seat of the stool, he manufactures a product which is “characterized by the freakish and organic shapes that are so typical of nature itself.”
Continue ReadingHow-To: Mushroom Stool
Transform a simple stool into an adorable mushroom with this easy project.
Continue ReadingAdorable Handcrafted Vintage Sewing Stool
Sometimes I think I should have been born in the “olden days.” I totally swoon over handcrafted furniture, especially vintage sewing benches with little pegs for spools of thread. This gem was outside at Mr. Ryder’s Antiques, a super sweet shop in Graton, California. The best part about this stool was that the drawer had […]
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Brush furniture could become bristlebot
The scrub together table and lazy stool furniture pieces by designer Jason Taylor are pretty neat looking, but is anyone else thinking what I’m thinking? Thats right, they are just a motor away from becoming giant bristlebots!
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