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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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.
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt Slices, It Dices: LuÃs 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleJust 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
View ArticleTransformer 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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