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Zombie Chair Ressurected By Hongtao Zhou

Zombie chair! Out for your wood scraps! Oozing sawdust and pure carnage! Designer Hongtao Zhou, who we found playing with ice, decided to get Holiday on a broken, abandoned chair he found on the streets in Madison, Wisconsin. The result: chair of the undead, risen from the swamp and demanding the chance to sit in your living room looking creepy. Zhou created the drippy effect with wood scraps and sawdust (and probably some monster blood and glue). Expect this chair on your front porch Halloween night, demanding all the sweet linseed oil you can muster. Happy creepy chair night, everyone, happy monster night.

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Links Roundup of the Week: Eco Furniture

by Olivia Chen, 08/07/09

Through the end of August, the Museum of Arts and Design is hosting a weekly evening of good drinks, food and art on Thursdays starting at 5:00 PM. Big fans of pay-as-you-wish admission to museums, the Inhabitat team went on the first night. As we wandered around the museum, we were easily enamored with the objects on display. And then we wondered — in an eco-world, are these objects responsible? What about functionality? Is creating something just for the sake of looking at it, a waste of resources? So this week, we’ve been scouring for designers who have a knack for creating objects that inspire us with great curiosity, but are created with eco-responsibility.

Designboom has us wondering how many components you can subtract from a chair and still make it structurally sound with Timothy Lile’s Less Chair.

Designsponge inspired us with the simple rustic look of these lamps by Zeke Leonard.

Atelier29 talks about a tree trunk bench that proves any tree trunk can become seating — in fact, Jurgen Bey only sells the chair backs, ready to be installed into any tree trunk.

Design Milk features the Barnacle Chair, a comfy chair perfect for small spaces, made of reclaimed industrial felt and sustainably-harvested ash.

Laser-Cut Elephant Chair by Medio Design

by Bridgette Meinhold, 05/19/09

The Elephant Chair, by Barcelona-based Medio Design, is a wonderful example of both efficient crafting and clean, classic lines. Modeled from Ray and Charles Eames’ Lounge Chair Wood, the Elephant Chair is assembled from laser-cut wood and then fit together like a puzzle.

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CA|BOOM4 OPENS IN SANTA MONICA, CA

by Evelyn Lee, 03/31/07

Friday marked the opening day of CABOOM4, and we love the new location at the Baker Hanger in Santa Monica, CA. While the day was only open to the professions of the trade, the evening reception that was open to all, proved to be even more entertaining than previous years. We were able to stop by and check out some long-time Inhabitat favorites in the PreFab zone such as CleverHomes, Marmol Radziner, and LivingHomes. After wrapping-up the PreFab Zone a few newbies caught our eye in the first timers section. We’ll be reporting back on all the best new eco-friendly designers from CABOOM4 in the next few days, so stay tuned! In the interim, here our reports so far: