Green Design
China cabinets with glass doors are so last century. These days we need more efficiency from our dining room or living room storage units. This means furniture that has lots of compartments and creative storage spots, as well as a commitment to energy saving, eco-friendly manufacturing.
Kursi’s retro-cool sideboard fits the bill on all these fronts, not to mention it has been turning heads in design showrooms and homes since it debuted last year. Though with the overall shape of a mid-century buffet, the details of the piece are decidedly more contemporary, most of all in terms of its three-part storage system – it has four drawers on the left side, a cabinet in the middle portion sized to perfectly accommodate liquor bottles or flower vases, and two sets of sliding doors and drawers on the right side.
The piece gets green stats for a long list of reasons: it’s made from start to finish in a small town in Lancashire, England and contributes to the small, local economy there; water-saving, energy saving, and recycling measures were at play in the manufacturing process; and entirely natural materials were used in its production.
The price retails for about 2,700 pounds on OneEcoHome.co.uk, a furniture-meets-eco-friendly website which rates all Kursi’s “green” stats (as well as an array of interior design products from a variety of companies) in more detail.
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Posted by chictip.com at 26 December, 2008
There are infinitely cuter options for putting away toys these days than there were five, ten years ago. Back then, parents had to rely on laundry baskets and plastic bins if they couldn’t stuff toys in already crammed closets. With the tagline of “built to outlast childhood” it’s clear that Via Toy Box has been thinking outside the proverbial box when it comes to toy storage.
The company makes modular, wood cubes that have fronts with funky shapes and doors, behind which toys, books, dolls, and puzzles can be easily stored — so easily that even the kids can get in on the clean-up act. With four different front-door shapes to choose from, available in 12 different colors, there are many mix-and-match scenarios to consider. The cubes can be arranged in pairs, threes, or stacked and staggered. Via Toy Box has applied the adorable, mix-and-match modular box concept to kids’ furniture as well, for bedroom and playroom sets.
All the furniture is made from birch, forested in the Baltics or Russia, and finished/painted with environmentally friendly and child-safe materials. Simple assembly is required.
For more information, visit ViaToyBox.com.
Posted by chictip.com at 3 November, 2008
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Posted by chictip.com at 31 October, 2008
You know how kids are infamous for ignoring a toy and playing with the box? Well Green Lullaby has taken this as an opportunity, making storage, toys, and even furniture out of cardboard! I was skeptical until I checked out the website.
Their desks and boxes look really easy to assemble, in addition to being pretty adorable. I smell an opportunity for a little artist to make a piece all their own, too! As is that weren’t cool enough, the materials are completely recycled. So look good, and do something good - doesn’t get much better than that.
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Posted by chictip.com at 8 October, 2008
As a Manhattanite who lives in a small space, I am constantly on the hunt for furniture and design elements that not only look great, but offer unexpected storage benefits. Foot stools, the coffee table, antique trunks: in my home, these all double as storage spots.
The Kevin Irvin Studio takes the furniture-meets-storage concept to new heights, literally, up on to the wall, with the Mod Box. This handmade box of rich wood has an artful cover, which also happens to hinge open. So you can put your stuff inside — CDs, books, DVDs, recipes, your Master’s Thesis, a collection of marbles … you can put whatever you want in there, ‘cause no one will ever see it! The Mod Box look best arranged in pairs or series, which can be staggered or arranged in rows on the wall.
My favorite in out of the Mod Box Series of front-cover options has to be “ “Pebble Box,” with off-white circles that appear as pebbles bleeding to the edge of sides, kind of like a slice of a Zen garden. There are a range of options though: for example, the “Poppy Box” has a flowery, more feminine look, whereas “Black Box,” with an overall black-circles motif, works for a more masculine style.
The pieces are custom-made, as all works of art must be, and made purely of dyed and stained woods – maple, birch, oak, etc. The dimensions: 12.25” (w) x 12.5” (h) x 8.75” (d). The Mod Box retails for $350 at www.hausmodernliving.com. More information can be found on KevinIrvin.com.
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Posted by chictip.com at 7 October, 2008
