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It Slices, It Dices: Botta Robot Desk/Drawers

Mario Botta, Swiss Architect, designed this in '89. It's a big, sexy column made of some great materials (wood, steel, 35cmx35cmx120cm). The top also flips out so as to create a desk area. Not made...

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It Slices, It Dices: Pollution Eating Concrete

Another tip came our way from Brian to check out a Wired News story on "Scrubbing Bubbles Hit the Streets". Turns out that nanotechnology can do more then keep your pants stain free - a coating of...

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It Slices, It Dices: Scando Family Table

The design of this Scando Family Table was inspired by the combination of Japanese living and watching how children relate to the floor in their daily activities. Eric Pfeiffer created a table that...

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It Slices, It Dices: Series X Furniture -- Sustainable Materials Creating...

TreeHugger likes multi-functional, transforming furniture for its versatility and resulting reduction in the amount of stuff we need; we also like seeing responsibly-sourced sustainable materials put...

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It Slices, It Dices: Incredible Folding Furniture Video

We TreeHuggers regularly fall all over ourselves for smart, space-saving, folding, flat-packable designs, but even we were left agape by this video. German designer Nils Frederking has bowled us over...

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It Slices, It Dices: Spruce Combination Lamp-Sweeper; Bright Idea or Just Dim?

Okay, so TreeHugger generally approves of multi-functional objects and design: why have two when you can use just one, right? Transforming furniture, like this bendy chair or this table and...

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It Slices, It Dices: Bookinist, the Crazy/Clever Chair for Reading, Thinking,...

We aren't sure if this design is clever or crazy: Bookinist, a combination chair/bookcase with a reading light, cup holder, and a more few surprises that combine to give new meaning to the term...

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It Slices, It Dices: Bibliochaise - Who Needs a Bookshelf?

For anyone who didn't get enough reading chair/book shelf mashup from last week's Bookinist, here's a slightly more overt combo. Bibiochaise and Bibiopouf come from Italian designers nobody & co...

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It Slices, It Dices: Have a Lightbulb Moment in the "Think" Chair

From designers Huseyin Sami and Gary Galego comes one interpretation of what might happen if a chair and a reading lamp had a lovechild. Inspired by the clichéd image borrowed from cartoons -- you...

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It Slices, It Dices: Two For the Price of One with John Pawson's Sofadesk

TreeHugger loves multi-functional, multi-tasking furniture and design, because if it can do two things, that's one less piece of furniture, one less thing, that you need cluttering up your house.

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It Slices, It Dices: Round, A Multi-Functional, Modular Coffee Table by...

Multi-functional and modular: two of TreeHugger's "M" words, and both present here in Luciano Bertonici's "Round" coffee table. On wheels for easy moving and multiple homes in small spaces, the table...

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It Slices, It Dices: Desk/Bookshelf Combo. Think About It

Just what was Belgian designer Bram Boo thinking when he conceived this desk/shelf combination for his Novela collection? Hard to say for sure, but we suspect it was an effort to follow his goal "to...

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It Slices, It Dices: Chair777, To Sit, Lounge & Relax

Between its materials and multi-functional design, die fabrik's Chair777 is not your normal chair. It's made from cardboard, a material that has proven time and again that it's not just for boxes...

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It Slices, It Dices: Perfect Perch; Portable, Cheap, Lightweight, Green Seating

22 year-old student designer James Chu set out to design and create "portable, cheap, lightweight and eco-friendly furniture," and the result is Perfect Perch: a modular, multi-functional, cardboard...

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It Slices, It Dices: Luís Porém's Inverso Chair

Rock 'n roll, or sit tight? The choice is yours with the dual-functioning Inverso chair by Portuguese designer Luís Porém. Set up one way, it's a gentle rocking chair; flip it over and you've got a...

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It Slices, It Dices: Smith Storage & Stool by Jonathan Olivares

Just as "Smith" the surname has many uses (as the most-employed in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand) as a family name, "Smith" the storage and stool has many uses around the house. Designed to...

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It Slices, It Dices: Form Creates Function in New Arne Jacobsen Chair

Dutch design team Huting & De Hoop have launched a new site to showcase their new work. Their collection includes this awesome Arne Jacobsen update, which they call "Added Values and Forms," which...

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It Slices, It Dices: Ex Libris Bookshelf and Table In One

Taking inspiration from its own Ptolomeo and Ptolomeo Wall book shelf designs (pictures below the fold), the Italian designers at MOCO have applied the same space-saving, hidden shelving ethic to "Ex...

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It Slices, It Dices: Fusion Dining/Pool Table Combo

Too often, our dining tables are relegated to dust-collecting duty when it isn't dinner time. Functioning in the same way beds do in our lives -- that is, totally necessary when we need them, but just...

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It Slices, It Dices: Bookseat -- Take a Seat, Read a Book

The idea of combining a chair and a bookshelf makes a lot of sense to us; since we spend most (if not all) of our reading time seated, it follows that we should have ready access to our reading...

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It Slices and Dices: Trends in Green Fridges

While we continue to stress that small fridges make good cities, there are some trends in big fridges that are worth looking at. So much food is wasted because it turns into compost in the vegetable...

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Just What We Needed Dept: More Useless Kitchen Accessories and NSFW Yet

You don't need a lot of stuff to be a good cook; Mark Bittman says ""A stove, a sink, a refrigerator, some pots and pans, a knife and some serving spoons," I answered. "All

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Transformer Furniture, Future Kitchens and Office Pods Are in "Inside Prefab:...

We never called them prefabs, but Deborah Schneiderman's new book shows a lot of what we have called transformer furniture and downloadable designs. Here are a few ripped from the pages of TreeHugger.

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