Eco Friendly Home Furniture Design Ideas

The next time you want to purchase an item for your office or home, choose authentic, original design. When you choose to buy authentic modern designs it ensures fairness and guarantees quality. Like art, furniture designers have meticulously planned out from concept to production the design and materials of a certain piece. Designers work hard to ensure that the design principles, materials and craftsmanship of a piece are all of the highest distinction. In addition, manufacturers who take steps to protect the environment in making a product may find that knockoff products have been created with no regard to environmental safety. In other words, a knockoff item may cost less initially, but the overall value of an authentic piece is far greater. So selecting genuine designs reaffirms the importance of high quality and the hard work of visionary designers and manufacturers.

Featuring 100% cotton fabric and a unique and quirky elegant black tree print, this Thomas Paul tote will take you from the market to the mall. Extra details like the Lime Green trim and handle are what makes Thomas Pauls totes special. The Tree Tote is a great example of something useful and something beautiful.

Born and raised in New York City, Thomas Paul got his start in the fashion business working as an intern at DKNY, in the mid-nineties, after graduating from New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology with a degree in textile design. While working as a colorist and designer for a silk mill specializing in neckwear and scarves, he worked on neckwear collections for such designers as Bill Blass, Calvin Klein, and DKNY. This eventually led to the creation of his own neckwear collection, the short-lived digities in the late 90’s. From this was born the start of the thomaspaul pillow collection, launched in 2001, which was originally conceived of as an idea of utilizing the silk printing mill’s capabilities for home accessories instead of personal accessories. Since then the line has steadily expanded into other categories apart from silk pillows to include tabletop, stationery, and lamp shades. The ultimate goal being to have products covering every aspect of the home, all with thomaspaul patterns gracing them.

The goal of Blu Dot is to bring good design to as many people as possible. Which means creating products that are useful, affordable, and desirable. To make that happen, their design process is founded on collaboration. Not just among themselves, as they play show-and-tell with concepts, but a total collaboration between pencil and paper, materials and machines, even packaging and assembly. Blu Dot’s designers like to think that the form is almost inevitable, a by-product of the process. Their job is simply to help it emerge as beautifully and as efficiently as possible.

Blu Dot was formed by three college friends - John Christakos, Charles Lazor, and Maurice Blanks, who shared a passion for art, architecture, and design. After they left college and began to furnish their first homes, they didn’t like the stuff they could afford and couldn’t afford the stuff they liked. They figured they were not alone and were naïve enough to try and do something about it. Blu Dot was born in 1997. Since then, the idea that good design is not just about beauty or form - it should also be about making our lives just a little easier and a little more enjoyable.

The tr(oi)ka was founded by Aurel Aebi, Armand Louis and Patrick Reymond in La Neuveville, Switzerland, in 1991 under the label Atelier Oi. The main elements that characterise the Atelier’s philosophy and work consist of its multidisciplinary nature. Orders come from the fields of architecture, design and scenography, and, most frequently, from between these different disciplines. Projects include developments for Wogg, Ribag, Roethlisberger, Swatch, B&B italia, and Desalto, among other clients. Invited to various design schools in Switzerland and abroad, they hold a teaching position in the design department of Ecal (University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland). Check out their Allegro Vivace Ceiling Light and Allegro Ritmico Pendant Lamp for more information on what these designers do.