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2011

Rethink Recycling

Why Today's Best Designers Are Digging Through Your Trash

February 2011,

Vol. 11

Issue 03.

Extended Content

Slideshows

New Power Generation

Master Stroke

Green New Power Generation Long before smoke-spouting power plants were relegated to the remote outskirts of the industrial city, large-scale energy generators were common sights in urban landscapes.	Outdoor Master Stroke In Santa Monica, California, where pools are plenty but not always eye-pleasing, Padraic Cassidy lifted one 30 inches off the ground—dramatically elevating its aesthetic appeal.	House Tours Kind of New For Brussels-based furniture designer Christiane Högner, inspiration comes less from glossy design mags than the castoffs she finds on the streets of Belgium.
My House Dance Dance Renovation The first time Houston-based architectural designer Barbara Hill set foot inside what would become her future second house, a 100-year-old adobe in Marfa, Texas, she found a cramped warren of rooms…	House Tours Modern Recycled House in the Netherlands In the eastern Netherlands, resourceful recyclers 2012Architects have built a house almost entirely out of locally sourced scrap, from old billboards to broken umbrellas.	Finishing Touch Hot Studs The recent history of Janna Stark's San Francisco flat, located in an 1890's Victorian house, is literally burned into the wall.
Green Ruin Reborn In 1981, Londoners Anthony and Gillian Blee purchased the ultimate fixer-upper.	House Tours Just Redo It What do you get when you give a couple of designers unlimited creative license on a very limited budget? For Andrew Dunbar and Zoee Astrakhan, the possibilities were limitless.	How they make it Emeco's 111 Navy Chair The tale of the Emeco's 111 Navy chair is that of a phoenix rising. In 1944, the Hanover, Pennsylvania-based company began producing the original 1006 Navy chair.
Product Reviews A Cutlery Above The meal itself may be the main event, but your tender victuals aren't much of an attraction without a means to make their way from plate to mouth.	Interviews Jonathan Adler Seventeen years ago, Jonathan Adler wasn’t a brand, he was a one-man full-time pottery production operation—“making, glazing, firing, packing, and shipping every single piece I…	Shops Consumer Retorts Chris Houston, the charmingly curmudgeonly owner of Modern Artifacts in San Francisco, is not your typical retailer.

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