Unconventional furniture – part 2: Reuse for a new charm

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Reuse Design Furniture

Translated by Silvia — The creativity of the so-called “Reuse Design” lately is forever more appreciate from an earth-friendly and “NON Useless” design point of view, but more importantly even of “RE-useful”.

Here is for you a selection of interesting projects born from the creativity of sensible designers looking for ecologically sustainable solutions, selection which goes to show the fact that reusing is an effective solution and can also be aesthetic. 12 propositions which come, in the most part, from discarded objects, rethought and modelled into a new existence, for a renewed and original desirability.

A source of inspiration and encouragement for our daily recycling.

All details in the link below.

Silver cutlery Limited Edition by Toni Grilo for Christofle

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Compact conviviality

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Translated by Silvia — If restricted domestic spaces are the new indisputable trend, it doesn’t mean that we must say goodbye to the conviviality that us Mediterraneans are famous for, nor must we wave goodbye to good design.

Indeed, the designer’s creativity helps us with practical suggestions so that we need not deprive ourselves from the pleasure of a nice little dinner between good friends for the well-being of our spirit and sharing instinct… since 1953, year in which the Danish Hans Olsen designed the first of 5 “1 table+4 chairs” solutions to which this post is dedicated and of which you can see more pictures in the cut below.

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