ICFF (sort of): Haute Green

Hopped over to Brooklyn today to check out Haute Green and a couple other places. Haute Green had some great work. Highlights after the jump.
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Stew Design Workshop Oenda Chair
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An FSC-certified lounge chair from Stew Design Workshop. What's notable here is the way they've split each layer (to make each piece shorter and easier to nest, and then incorporated that split as a visible gap in the surface. This has a great bit of lateral curvature as well. Something like this is inherently labor intensive though. You can just imagine piecing all those sections together, then having to sand out all the stairsteps.



Elliot & Morin Swarf Lamp

Swarf is the scrap left over from machining aluminum. Most machine shops save it up and recycle it, but Elliot & Morin (no website) have grabbed a bunch and turned it into a pendant shade. Clever and pretty easy to do yourself if you have the slightest bit of initiative.



Materious Bone Lamp

A couple of nested scrap PVC pipes with a bulb, from Materious. The simple ideas are often the best.



Carpenter & Carpenter Book Bookcase

Keeping your books an a bookcase made of books is pretty meta. Sheet steel for stength bolted to old encyclopedias for stiffness and coolness. (Where do you find the "Everyman's Encyclopedia" anyway?) Something inside me wants those shelves to be straight though. From England's Carpenter & Carpenter.





Bleach Design Cocoon Lamp

Cork is a great material, and this is a great subtle lamp from Portuguese Bleach. And of course, Portugal is a good place to get cork.



Uhuru Design Stoolen

I saw a few other stools at ICFF made from chunks of wood (or logs) stacked together in a bundle. I like this one more though. Scrap wood with an old bicycle rim, from Uhuru.