Reduce, Reuse, Upcycle
You’ve probably seen these tea-chest kitchen cabinet fronts designed by Rupert Blanchard. Who knew hubby and I were so avant garde when we used tea-chests as nightstands for so many years. Of course ours were simply covered with a table-cloth; nothing to be proud of really. This is so much more stylish, and practical too:
from stylingandsalvage.blogspot.com
Grain matched drawers, too
Examples of creative up-cycling abound at Styling and Salvage, from furniture pieces where every drawer or door has its own story to tell
from Styling and Salvage
Up-cycled tallboy
through a workshop created from shipping palettes
Shipping Pallet Workshop
to a copy of the Louis Ghost chair made from planks of found wood. Am I the only one who’d like to see the original French chair in this line-up too?
Louis Ghost and Up-cycled Copy
An important but largely overlooked news item was reported in Styling and Salvage in March – MacDonalds are using Eames chairs in their UK restaurants. This has to spell the end of Mid-Century Modern as the style choice de riguer for the truly hip and trendsetting, doesn’t it? It’ll be interesting to see if hand-crafted salvage chic takes over as the next big movement.
Eames Chair at MacDonalds
Have you seen Jonathan Fong’s “Warhol kitchen”?
http://www.jonathanfongstyle.com/decor/warhol_kitchen.html