Art of Upcycling: 20 DIY Wood Pallet Reuse Project Ideas. Not quite a fan of the unsustainable design clones that fight for elbow room in today’s furniture and big box stores?
Anyone with a crafty bone in their body knows full well that entirely original household staples and all around practical lifestyle accessories with major wow factor can be cobbled together with minimal budgetary impact, all thanks to humble yet highly customizable wooden shipping pallets. Even if you’ve never before dabbled in the fine art of design via DIY, a little elbow grease and repurposing inspiration is really all you need to get your eco-design train in motion. Allllll aboard! No-Sweat Shoe Rack Ensures Fanciful Footwork! M3 Chair by Thomas Feichtner. Vienna Design Week 2011: Vienna Design Week opens tomorrow and local designer Thomas Feichtner will present his chair with a seat suspended at the centre of a cubic oak frame.
The M3 Chair measures one metre on each side, with diagonal struts connecting the outer corners to its square seat. Produced in the workshops of Austrian company Neue Wiener Werkstätte, the chair will be on show at Theresiengasse 6, 1180 Vienna. Mosquito Chair by Michael Bihain. Mosquito Chair by Michael Bihain Mosquito is the result of a reflexion relating to the humanism and the autonomy of the piece of furniture.
A first gesture towards the `not furniture’. The answer takes to the form an alive being.