neumatica: recycled inner tube bags

Argentinian company Neumatica Net makes the most fabulous looking bags out of recycled rubber inner tubes. Not only are they creating a lovely looking product, the tubes take more than 500 years to decompose. Neumatica bags are made using tubes from tires of any kind of vehicle, 100,000 tons of this material is disposed every year, in Argentina alone.

All rubber inner tubes begin plain and have no texture when new, but after being used, the heat of the tires transfers the design to them, so you will find multiple textures in Neumatica products.

trilby made: recycled leather cuffs

While browsing Etsy, I happened upon Trilby Made's recycled leather reversible cuffs just now. Swoon. Their open, lattice-like design makes a dramatic eco fashion statement. Plus its two in one, you can wear the cuff two ways and they have two colors.

{armadiature: recycled furniture: robi renzi}

Designer Robi Renzi of RenziVivian will present a series of cabinets assembled from a patchwork of salvaged wooden components in Milan later this month entitled 'Armadiature'.
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csb basics: reclaimed furniture

North Carolina's CSB Basics offers sustainable, eco friendly furnishings.

ekla home: reclaimed furniture

Ekla Home

resign atelier: product reinvention

The Resign Atelier from Faenza Italy, aims to create functional objects from discarded materials. The projects undertaken by the founders, Andrea Magnani & Giovanni Delvecchio, explore reuse from a symbolic and referential perspective to create increased value for unloved objects. The duo intend to educate/consult people and companies offering inspired designs for reuse. Thanks to Andrea for sharing these fabulous products.
Resign Atelier

gueto studio: recycled jewelry

Gueto Studio Brazil, has gotten together with Brazil’s biggest petrol company, Petrobas to design products from recovered petroleum byproducts. Their jewelry line is made of rubber coming from the auto industry. Materials were selected that were not toxic to people who would be working with them manually. The result is a bit of green lovely-ness.

edible yards

heartbeet

shira golding

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architecten 2012: material reuse

2012 Atchitecten is a design firm from the Netherlands working to reduce the waste stream by incorporating reclaimed and waste materials into their construction projects and forms.
Watch this episode about the Architcture Firm's reuse projects, like their washing machine space station coffee house.
More on their website.

flotsum & jetsam table: marcus o'reilly architects

I love to beachcomb, picking up driftwood or shells meandering in the sand. That is why this driftwood table designed by Melbourne-based architecture firm, Marcus O’Reilly Architects, appeals so much to my inner beach bum. Each piece of driftwood collected from beaches in St. Kilda, was trimmed to size, wire brushed, colored, waxed, and placed on a simple black steel frame. Strikingly unique, it is no surprise that this design won the Craft Victoria Design and Innovation Award for 2009.
Photography by Dianna Snape.
Marcus O'Reilly
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adaptive reuse: soest netherlands: zecc architecten

When the original use of a structure changes or is no longer required, architects have the opportunity to change the primary function of the structure, retaining some of the existing architectural details that make the building unique. Adaptive reuse, is seen by many as a key factor in land conservation and reducing the amount of sprawl. For those who prescribe to the smart growth concept, it is more efficient and environmentally responsible to redevelop older buildings closer to urban cores than it is to build new construction on faraway greenfield sites.

In the United States, especially in the Northeast and Midwest, loft housing is one prominent result of adaptive reuse projects. Formerly-industrial areas such as the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, New York and Callowhill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are being transformed into residential neighborhoods through this process. This transformation is sometimes associated with gentrification.

This example of Adaptive Reuse in Soest Netherlands, an old water tower, was ingeniously converted to a nine level residence. Built in 1931, the tower renovation features smart design choices for maximum space usage and natural light.

In addition to a 3 level window that allows natural light to enter the structure near the ground level, the home features a sauna and roof deck with fantastic views. Completed in 2004, the tower residence was designed by Zecc Architecten.

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rehab vintage furniture

Rehab Vintage has a nice offering of vintage and repurposed furnishings.

recycled fabric bootie roundup

All these baby booties are made from recycled materials and all would be wonderful gifts.

PBM
KP
Wooly Baby
Kaboogie

reclaimed furniture: krd

Killer Robot Design makes a resourceful suitcase coffee table and patchwork dining table.

'albie' puppy light from salvage materials

The ‘Albie’ light is created out of reclaimed wood and recycles wheels from other toys by design duo James Plumb

The adorable light is two-thirds the size of his older brother ‘Samson’. Both are lights made out of recycled materials and parts.
This whimsical light created by designers James Plumb is only available in a limited edition of 25, and is showing along with many of their other products at Tent London.

JamesPlumb consists of two designers, James Russell and Hannah Plumb, who create environmentally friendly and unique pieces by recycling antiques and cast-offs such as old lampshades, pub sign lights, and ageing silk screens.

Price: £550 each
Tent London
via Architects Journal

we are familia: recycled keepsake boxes

Art collective We Are Familia is currently launching the sixth, seventh and eighth of a series of keepsake boxes made from recycled and surplus materials. The first pieces of the edition of 25 boxes were launched at Colette, each keepsake box contains about 40 pieces of original art work, including a diorama, a soundscape, a shirt, a set of coffee mugs and other multimedia pieces from this global family of artists. The new keepsake boxes by Jennifer Garcia, Fabian Bedolla, Randy Lott and Leah Ellis.

haute reclaimed frames: nauti & co

Nauti and Co.

recycled architecture

This gorgeous home by Single Speed Design called the Big Dig House, was made from materials salvaged from the Big Dig Highway project in Boston.

The homes uses 600,000 lbs of recycled materials and took over 3 years of designing before the final form was unveiled. Constructed from materials from steel to rubber tubing, the final cost of the dwellings is around $150 per square foot.

varian designs

Varian Designs is an environmentally conscious business with five core designs, 'The Timber Collection', made with recycled or responsibly harvested red and white oak, white pine, Douglas fir, and steel.

fabien cappello: christmas tree furniture

Fabien Cappello has come up with a truly genius idea of taking scrap wood from Christmas trees. The Royal College of Art graduate has harvested some timber from the 1.8 million Christmas trees discarded on the streets of London each January. Motivated by the vast unuse, he turned the trunks into timber and the branches into dowels. Cappello even worked the needles into a new compressed board material. Cappello says the project is not about waste collection or recycling, but rather how people integrate with urban environments.

via Dezeen