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Children’s Bean Bag Chairs – Why Parents Love Them
Children’s bean bag chairs have a lot more to offer than just cool seating! When your child asks for one of these fun, comfortable and stylish chairs, this is a piece of furniture you should be excited to buy. Whether you have a toddler, a teenager or a couple in between, bean bag furniture should be featured in every bedroom, play room, media room and dorm for a long list of reasons.
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Furnishings & Buying Canadian
For those interested in eco-design, one of the first rules is to buy locally. Though there are a plethora of Canadian-made furnishings available, many are not identified as such in retail stores…until now. Quality Canadian Furniture (QCF) was formed with the goal of helping you “get to know the faces behind the furniture” by the Quebec Furniture Manufacturers’ Association.
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Solar Powered SOFT Rocker
Hmmm… useful urban furniture with multiple purposes that make a great design statement to boot? Hard to find, perhaps, but it does exist. Case in point: MIT’s SOFT Rocker doubles as a smart, clean energy charging station. Designed as an alternative to conventional urban design pieces by professor Sheila Kennedy and a team of students for the Festival of Art+Science+Technology (FAST), the dynamic rocker leverages human power to create an interactive 1.5 axis 35 watt solar tracking system. The teardrop-shaped, solar-panel-covered seats also act as charging stations. They rotate on an axis to optimally align with the sun and generate additional energy from the gentle rocking motion created when a person lounges inside. The harvested energy powers three (3) USB ports and illuminates an interior light strip, making it perfect for recharging electronic devices, reading, or simply relaxing and listening to your iPod.
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Standard Seating... with a Twist
If you’re looking for a wing chair — with a twist — consider Alifair, the award-winning design by Ryland Quillen. Quillen won a student design competition, BiOH Project UDesign, sponsored byCargill, that called for the creation of sellable, sustainable wing chairs. Alifair has been picked up by Century Furniture for production, a great start for a young furniture designer’s career!
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When 1 Equals 6: The TriWing Chair
Marco Hemmerling designed the TriWing chair with thoughts of multitasking. TriWing starts as one (1) single chair. Nested inside is another, smaller version of the same chair. And each chair integrates various seating postures in one continuous shape by flipping the chair along its longitudinal axis.
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Wood Concrete
An interesting new product was presented at IIDEX / NeoCon Canada: Mountain Pine Beetle Wood Concrete, or MPBWC. The concrete-like material was developed at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in response to the glut of unusable wood fibre left in the wake of the Mountain Pine Beetle devastation.
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Transition Baby Furniture
Nursery furniture has come a long way in recent years, with most suites offering long-term growth and functionality. Cribs become training beds before transitioning into full beds. Changing tables can be removed from dressers or desktops. Shelves can be repositioned, added, or removed.
