I saw this chair in a blog called Eco Spirit, written by Portugal-born Maria and Wilma. I liked the chair so much that I had to talk about it here. Purupu, as this children’s chair is named, is made from a new material called DuraPulp.

DuraPulp is a mixture of paper pulp and biodegradable plastic created by a company called Södra PulpLab, which results in a waterproof paper as resistant as wood, steel or hard plastic. The new material boasts the best features offered by paper: it’s cheap, light and organic.

The chair made from this material was introduced during the 2009 Milan Design Week and was designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune, a company founded by three Swedish designers and architects—Marten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune.

It’s agony to make room for all of our pots and pans in our increasingly smaller kitchens. We even store them in the oven.

But here is a much cooler solution that requires very little space. This shelf was specifically designed to hold pots and pans but can be used as a fruit bowl—and an ecologic one, because it is made of bamboo. It costs US$175 at Crate & Barrel.
Read this post at Rodrigo Barba’s Blog: Shelf for pans