Over at Martha Stewart, the craft department went a bit nuts with leftover wool felt scraps, creating this stunning felt floor mat.
It reminds me of the seat slices sold at Branch. I’ve always loved the slices, but never really thought how easy they would be to DIY.
Images from Martha Stewart and Branch Home. Via re-nest.
Check out the Flash Gordon line of black polyester resin jewelry embedded with recycled circuit board pieces and a few computer parts. Handmade in Rio, they are interesting, recycled, and not very expensive.
I love the modern shapes. You can see more in person at Sobral’s NY showroom, or online at Sobral USA. 
Innovative lighting ideas from a showcase of Israeli design students at the Milan Furniture Fair. Some of the more interesting examples:
Many of these lighting ideas would be impossible without the advances in low-power, low-heat light bulbs, which allow the use of more delicate (and often more eco-friendly) materials.
Via TreeHugger.
With spring springing all around, you may be dreaming on long, lovely bike rides. If your vintage ride needs a stylish new fender, consider these hand-made wooden ones from Red Tail Fenders (via their Etsy shop).
Images from Red Tail Fenders. Via design*sponge.
Emeco has remade their classic 1944 aluminum Navy chair in recycled PET (rPET, mixed with glass filler and pigment). They have partnered with Coca Cola to use reclaimed soda bottles. Each 111 Navy Chair™ will consume approximately 111 20-oz. plastic bottles, sourced from a Spartanburg, SC recycling plant. The chairs will be molded in North Carolina and sold via DWR retailers starting this June. They’ll still be a bit expensive for a plastic chair, but I like the direction this is headed, where we use locally generated recycling to make products that have iconic styling and are designed to last. Unfortunately, with all the fillers, I’m guessing the chairs can’t really be recycled again at the end of life, but with luck, they’ll last a long long time.
We've seen beetle block items before, but none so lovely as these by Straight Line Designs. The mountain pine beetle has been devastating forests in Canada, and several companies are trying to salvage the blue-stained "denim pine" wood into new products.
I like the look of the river rocks and the rock wall.
Images from Straighline Designs. Via Re-Nest.
Nervous System has done it again with their latest line of math and nature-inspired jewelry. The Xylem items are based on vein formations in roots and leaves. Lovely.
Images from Nervous System. Via NotCot.
