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Posts tagged “seating - dining & sidechair”

Reworked Thonet Chairs
Melbourne

As part of this years Melbourne International Design Festival in July, Thonet hosted an exhibition of local emerging and established designer’s re-imagining of their classic café chair. We didn’t...

Moss: Extreme Seating

With all the recent "fly talk" we saw this online today and wanted to share. The chair is aptly named--fly chaise lounge. After further investigation, we noticed Moss has plenty of extreme seating t...

Burojet: Convertible Seating for Small Space Living

Space at a premium in your home? Need a place for guests to sit that's a step up from a folding chair? Or a place for blogging or a snack that's not your bed? If you'd also like something that doub...

Gumtree = Craigslist
Melbourne

The problem with Craigslist, is that it hasn’t really caught on here in Australia. But luckily we have gumtree to fill the gap. Gumtree hails from the UK and was set up to cater to all the Aussie, K...

How To: Multi-Task A Room

When living in an apartment or small home, creative thinking is a great way to maximize your space. Most common inspiration - recreating rooms within other rooms. The design goal is to create function...

Good Combo: Factory District Table + Air Arm Chair

Yesterday, Laure blogged Modern Farm, both the collection from West Elm and ideas for doing it yourself. If this is a look you like, we found a table that fits into this scheme plus a chair that will...

Consider a Chair with a Drawer

We're one of those people who cannot make decisions in the morning. Which is why we arranged our medicine chest in use order, why we put everything we need to remember to take with us on our landing ...

Isometric Chair at Dwell on Design

Bring some of the garden indoors with this bamboo chair made with 100% all natural, non-toxic and sustainable materials and manufactured locally....

ICFF 2008: The Heat Sensitive "Swamp Collection"

Visual Reference Studio’s booth at ICFF was a crowd pleaser with plenty of smiles around, thanks to several of the design team showing off their thermosensitive seating materials in humorous fashio...

Inspiration: Titi Abiola's Needlepointed Chairs

We're always looking for ways to transform our furniture by giving it a unique spin. We love taking old pieces and refinishing them; it's one way we can do our part to recycle, and we admire that tra...

Ecosystems Tandem 1: No Tools Required

Ecosystem's Tandem 1 looks like perfect seating for a game of "Duck, Duck, Goose", doesn't it? It's also notable for being a flat packaged seat and side table system made of renewable bamboo, finished...

Rings Side Chair by Atuto
Elle Decor May 2008

It's supposed to be in the 90's this weekend in Palm Springs, (any of you going to Coachella?). Even if you can't make it to the desert, you can bring a little Palms Springs glam with this Rings side ...

Stella Table from Zuster

Don’t you hate when you fall in love with someone geographically undesirable? As Gregory pointed out, it’s the same with furniture. We’re a little bit in love with this Stella table – made i...

Round Up: Lace

When we were children, we'd spend this week busily making Valentines from red construction paper and lace doilies. Now that we're grown, we like its complex pattern on our furniture as well as in env...

A Tulip Chair Makeover

Tobias was the entrant one of our most popular January Jumpstart projects. While he's awaiting to hear about the results, he was kind enough to send us one of his other DIY projects, this one involvin...

Invisible Chairs: Seating and Musical Instrument In One

Mark Dixon's Invisible Chairs look like a typical wooden chair until you take a peek underneath. Dixon has fine tuned these chairs into twenty limited edition chairs that come tuned to specific notes,...

French Cafe Chairs on Sale!

While combing through HD Buttercup yesterday we spied these French Cafe Chairs (they call them Eden Chairs), and in the midst of our reverie about how great a trip to Paris would be right about now,...

A Classic: Nakashima Straight Backed Chair

We just noticed the recently re-issued Nakashima Chair in the window at DWR. It reminded us of the smaller scale and simpler designed chairs we played with as little ones....

Grandmas Kitchen

If it was only this easy to maximize space and utility with a simple push or pull like these Grandmas Kitchen concepts by Melanie Olle & Ilja Oelschlgel. Need a table? Pull it out. A lamp? There's...

Design obsession: Banquettes

Our house has a bit of an obsessive compulsive disorder, Ok, really it's just me - I latch onto an idea and it says until I purchase or solve the problem at hand. For the last two years it's been abo...

Garageworks Industries Carbon Fiber Eames Chairs

I've often pondered taking in some old worn furniture and having it spray painted with automotive paint. But I've never considered adorning furniture in automotive carbon fiber like the team at Gara...

Wud - Pb-R Chair

Here's another piece of furniture that maximizes usable space and utility with a bit of panache to boot. The strangely named Wud - Pb-R Chair tackles the problem of where to put away your placemat or...

New from Anthropologie

Anthropologie's new catalog has some swell new pieces that marry the modern esthetic with the recent trend of baroque. This striped table would be a great focal point in an loft/ studio setting. ...

Silho: New Furniture and Accessories

I received and email from Silho featuring their newly added furniture and accessories for fall. Some of the new items include lamps, silver platters, pressed velvet pillows, and sofas. From Silh...

Handsome Target Chair

We saw this chair in the store a while back and recall chatting with the savvy looking couple next to us how fantastic Target really is. This very elegant, buttery-yellow, faux suede chair is as g...