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T-Shirt Chair

Nicole Zeigler — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:51:00 +0000

This T-shirt Chair by Maria Westerberg recently won the 2011 Green Furniture Award.

You can order it as an empty frame, where you then collect 40 used t-shirts and weave them into the frame for a soft and colorful chair. (It’s also available pre-made, using sofa manufacturing scraps.)

Unfortunately, I can’t find it for purchase yet in the U.S.

Re Store

Nicole Zeigler — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:36:00 +0000

Have you ever been to a Re Store location? Re Store is a resale outlet that sells used and donated items to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. It also helps prevent these items from ending up in landfills. And considering the large amount of landfill space that is occupied by construction waste, an operation like this is a necessity.

I’m fascinated by what you can find at Re Store. We’ve purchased garden tools, seeds, car parts, patio furniture, a humidifier, and much more from the Salt Lake City location.

Today I stopped by because I wanted to see the cabinets that my clients had just donated from their kitchen project. They used to look like this:

And now they look like this:

These are well-constructed solid wood cabinets with a beautiful veneer.

My favorite part is the hardware.

I can’t tell what sort of wood these pulls are (could it be rosewood?) but they are beautiful pulls. I’m thinking it might be worth buying the cabinets just for the pulls (and then donating the boxes back to Re Store if you don’t have a use for them)!

I hope someone recognizes the potential and can give these items a new home!

On another note, I couldn’t resist buying this awesome retro office chair for myself! Whether it fits or not is to be determined, but it was only $10 so I had to do it, right?

If you live near a Re Store, please check it out! I think you might be surprised.

Goodbye Grasshopper!

Nicole Zeigler — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:00:00 +0000

We took the grasshopper chair to the upholsterer last weekend.

I was a little sad to see him go. There’s so much life and history behind that chair, it’s almost as if he’s a person. Okay, maybe not a person, but definitely like a pet. Maybe because it’s called grasshopper, and when I was younger I always tried to keep grasshoppers as pets.

Anyway, in a few short weeks he’ll be back as good as new, well-groomed and sporting this awesome new fabric:

Maharam Steelcut Trio #533

Stay tuned!

And if you’re interested, find info about the chair, and the original look we are going for, at the Knoll Museum website.

Someday…

Nicole Zeigler — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:09:00 +0000

Someday this…

Will hopefully look like these…

photograph by Stuart McIntyre, via desiretoinspire

from vitsoe.com

from flickr

It’s going to be a challenge, but aren’t these PK-22 chairs by Poul Kjaerholm beautiful?