Apartment Therapy Tagged: recycled

Household Plastic Bags With Recycled Content

Our post earlier today about a possible plastic bag ban in Los Angeles brought out an assortment of responses and opinions. One concern we noted and share with some fellow readers/pet owners is the ne...

Pappelina and Dalarna Indoor Outdoor Rugs by Magdalena York Collection

A few weeks ago, when we were at the Dwell on Design home tours, we spotted a great flat weave runner in the kitchen of one of our favorite houses. It was also used in the hallway. Then, this weeken...

Transparent House's Tape Cassette Lamp

As Gregory pointed out yesterday, next month we'll be "thinking green" across all our sites. Thinking green for us has always including repurposing objects and we are always intrigued by ordinary obj...

The Pallet Chair by StudioMama

Last week, when we blogged outdoor furniture for less, the photograph we found to illustrate our post reminded us of The Pallet Chair by Studiomama......

Food Map Container at Dwell on Design

While walking down the aisles of the convention center at Dwell on Design this afternoon, we overheard someone mention "...and it's perfect for people who live in apartments". Designer Jon L. Wilson o...

Inspiration: The Recycled Designs of Aki Kotkas

There's something satisfying when designers re-appropriate used or trash-bound items, transforming them into wholly new purposeful objects...an inspiration for any DIY'er who believes in ecological-id...

ICFF 2008: XS Chair by Nick Demarco

As Abby noted, we noticed a lot of designers producing pieces that were made of recycled or repurposed materials at this year's ICFF. One piece at the show garnered some attention. It was a prototyp...

ICFF Day One: Eggcrate Dancer Lamp from Recolector Diseno

One of the things that we gravitated towards at ICFF was the the number of items made from re-purposed materials. What could be discarded as trash has been re-thought into new objects. One of these...

Clothing tag pillows by Pieces of You / Bridget West

Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Dior... When it comes to luxury items, for many, it's all about the labels. Designer Bridget West, based in London, has taken that theory and given it an eco twist, by making cus...

Recycling Grocery Paper Bags Into Gift Tags

Yesterday as I was wrapping up my posting duties for AT, I noted that my girlfriend had a stack of cute gift tags all lined up, which she had craftily made from Gelson's supermarket paper bags. We d...