for SecondoMe Gallery, designed by Nucleo_P. Robino and A. Denton
Made of recycled wood, silkscreen color, a mixture of resin and wood
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Christopher White of Revitalized Artistry is currently in school but on the side he specializes in taking old mid-century furniture and giving it a second chance.
More: Refinished and Reloved Furniture by Revitalized Artistry - Design Milk
Naomi Paul’s ‘OMI’ pendant collection is a series of lamps developed using surplus material - typically from the fashion industry - sourcing mercerized cotton and silk which she crochets by hand to form each one. ‘
“Tom Kipgen makes radios using vintage parts and hand-wound coils. Absolutely stunning stuff.”
A fun gallery of repurposing inspiration: Creative Ways to Repurpose and Reuse Old Stuff » Design You Trust
Welcome to A Piece Of Cleveland. We love our city. We love its history, its character and its potential. We created APOC to preserve this rich history by telling a story and turning unwanted materials into furniture and other products that will increase their value.
About the project, here: A Piece of Cleveland Ensures That the Past Isn’t Lost in the Upcycle | Business on GOOD
Excerpt:
Chris Kious … spent five years working for a Cleveland community development organization, working on an inventory of around 100 abandoned houses in just one neighborhood. Thanks to depopulation, foreclosures, and antiquated floor plans—think one bathroom, no garage—thousands of century-old homes have been left to crumble throughout the city. These properties correlate with lower property values for neighbors, higher crime rates, squatters, drugs—and so, according to the City of Cleveland Building and Housing Department, the city has proactively demolished 6,323 homes since 2006. It’s a needed service, but history is often lost as these old homes are razed. Just as importantly, a stream of raw material is trucked off with each demolition.
Elsewhere in Cleveland was designer P.J. Doran, an artist and craftsman who had been making “things” from garbage picks, leftovers and salvaged building materials since he was a kid. As he developed into a tradesman in the home construction industry, he was staggered and frustrated by the immense waste involved in new construction, and so he began designing and building custom furniture from reclaimed materials. His work was a spark of inspiration, and in 2007, Kious and Doran recognized an opportunity. A Piece of Cleveland got its start, and from carefully deconstructed homes on the city’s demolition list, new feature walls, counter tops, tables and chairs are reborn.
Carla Peters from Wonderable exhibited her adorable collection of Fair Trade pendant lamps, that are constructed by artisans using recycled waste paper collected from Vietnamese printing companies.
More: Inhabitat
Designer Kelly Caruso is a recent grad with a degree in Furniture Design and Woodworking but it’s her Recycled Pendant Lamps that really caught our attention….
A local restaurant gave her avocado crates that she disassembled and sewed into the various shapes you see here. The layering of the concave disks allows light to pass through creating really interesting shadows.
More here: Design Milk
An innovative way to give new life to old tires: In Milwaukee, two students are trying to connect two neighborhoods via an old rail line. And they’re using the old tires the future park is littered with to make it more than just a gravel path.
Dutch designer willem heeffer has created a hanging ski-chandelier for elamysmatkat, a helsinki-based travel agency with donations from old snow-sport equipment.
This colourful up-cycled lamp serves as interior decoration for the office and reflects on the office’s fun and extreme winter philosophy. Industrial size bolt hooks function as coat hangers while the gray-scale world map
stretches out for five meters to impress the clients.
More here: hanging recycled ski-chandelier — designboom
Earlier Unconsumption coverage of Willem Heeffer’s work: lamps made from Campbell’s Soup cans (here) and Heinz Beanz cans (here).
Scroll too quickly through Past Imperfect, and you might think you’re just looking at a standard antiques blog. But if you take a closer look at the photographs of beautiful vases and intricate porcelain tea cups that illustrate each post, you’ll notice that each one object has been damaged and carefully mended.
Created by Andrew Baseman, an interior designer and set decorator, the blog showcases antiques that were repaired hundreds of years ago, when people couldn’t always afford to buy replacements. Baseman’s blog is a soothing antidote to the fast-paced mass consumption that occasionally overwhelms us today.
(via Waste Not: The Art of Inventive Repair | The Etsy Blog)
Unconsumption has posted about Baseman’s fab blog before — but we still love it!
