This weekend at Austin's popular Maker Faire craft festival we had the pleasure of observing all sorts of wonderful handmade items, but there was one creative crafter that caught our attention with their recycled furniture design. More after the jump!
Look: Recycled Bicycle Furniture!
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It's no doubt Austin is a bike town. It was only time that a cycle lover decided to do something about all the parts that die after so many miles. Brad Rollans of Bicycle Graveyard takes the parts of our favorite two-wheel transportation and makes them into stunning items of home decor, like Bicycle Cassette Clocks, Bicycle Wall Lamps, Bicycle Coffee Tables or Bicycle Fork Lamps. Memorable tributes to these simple machines that take us where we want to go, this furniture definitely embodies the spirit of Austin!
What do you think about reusing old bicycle parts to create home furnishings? Tacky or gorgeous? Let us know!
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If the table legs were made of pieces of the bike, like the front forks or the wheels or the cut-up frame - it might be clever and make some sort of sense...
...but it's just a table (nothing special or reused) with a bike frame sitting inside - it's not even holding up the top. He could have just as easily put a stuffed fish or a bowling ball or a bongo drum in there...
I do like his clocks...
...but the table? I don't see the point.
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The bike frame doesn't appear to have anything structurally to do with this table. The table itself appears to be built out of hardware store basics and a pane of glass from someone who replaces windshields. I don't know, if you're quirky and you like bikes and home-made looking tables, you would probably think this is cool. The other stuff in the shop in that link to an old AT post that increases web hits, some of it had more appeal and some had less.
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I agree about the table. The bike frame doesn't have anything to do with its construction - in fact, it's interfering with possible storage space. Not my cuppa. The clocks are a much better example of recycling IMO.
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yeah...not recycled bike furniture, but basic home depot threaded-rod-and-board-and-glass table with a bike frame under it
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If you want to recycle a good bike frame, send it over to Austin Yellow Bike Project, don't stick it under a table.
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I almost never have to leave a comment because Bepsf says what I would have said before me. So, what s/he said.
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Recycling items is a good thing to do but you want to make into something useful and attractive that makes sense. This artist made this bench from pitchforks and ax handles. Great re-use and they add to the design.
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I'm with bepsf.
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I agree w/bepsf *fan base keeps growing*
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This is an unique idea, very good and not yet I have ever seen this prouct before all, Do I earn to know who is the creator of..http://www.awesome-furnitures.com/table-furniture
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Where I can to get this prouct...
baray@awesome-furnitures.com
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bepsf = for the win.
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