Wooden Bike Rack Made With Blighted Canadian Pine

Wooden Bike Rack Made With Blighted Canadian Pine
Vancouver-based design start-up Killwood utilizes only affected trees in their creations — forest fire risk is greatly increased if left unharvested — the studio aims to bring contemporary products to market and draw attention to the growing environmental issue. Killwood takes the wood from those pine beetle killed trees and creates sustainable lifestyle goods that... 
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Halbhaus: 17th Century Modest Alpine Chalet Makeover

Halbhaus: 17th Century Modest Alpine Chalet Makeover
Halbhaus is a 17th-century timber-frame Swiss chalet located in the historic Swiss mountain village of Andermatt. Halbhaus (‘half house’ in German) originally stood next to a house that was its mirror image, but was lost to a fire several decades ago. The heart of the house is a double-height kitchen and living area. Whitened wood... 
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Mountain View House With Panoramic Alpine Views

Mountain View House With Panoramic Alpine Views
Three-storey Mountain View residence by SoNo Arhitekti nestles into a hillside near an Austrian Alpine village. Its position near the top of the hill allows for impressive views, so the house was designed to take advantage of this. The house is framed by reinforced concrete and cross-laminated timber, this arrangement made it easy to create... 
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Holiday House With Serene Pine And Larch Interiors

Holiday House With Serene Pine And Larch Interiors
Located in the Dolomite mountain village of Mareo, in South Tyrol, Italy, La Pedevilla was inspired by the traditional farmhouses of the region. The house is an energy-efficient oasis with its own water source, geothermal heating, solar panels, and a photovoltaic power plant. The architects used locally sourced solid Swiss stone pine and larch and... 
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Unique Woodspot Table Lamp Of Pine

Unique Woodspot Table Lamp Of Pine
Woodspot table lamp is a new work by Alessandro Zambelli, it’s assembled and varnished entirely by hand. Joined to the molded support are a base and a light diffuser, both in pine with a natural finish. The diffuser itself is available in ivory white, flesh pink or pastel green. The base of the lamp rests... 
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Barn-Like Alpine Cottage With Modern Interiors

Barn-Like Alpine Cottage With Modern Interiors
Vienna design collective Mostlikely modelled this Alpine lodge in Kitzbühel, Austria, on the wooden agricultural barns of surrounding mountain villages. Named The Barn, the three-storey house comprises a base of bare concrete rather than brickwork, and a wooden upper section with a gently sloping roof that helps prevent a large build-up of snow. I like... 
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Minimalist Home 09 Of Pine Plywood

Minimalist Home 09 Of Pine Plywood
Plywood is a great design material due to being relatively inexpensive, viable and desirable. i29 interior architects took the basic pine wood material and used it for covering large expanses of the interior to bring more warmth inside of Home 09 in Bloemendaal, Netherlands. The entire surface is covered with wood – walls, fireplace, shelving,... 
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Original Pine Trees Inspired Sofa by Noé Duchaufour

Original Pine Trees Inspired Sofa by Noé Duchaufour
Nature is always a popular theme for creations. Noé Duchaufour Lawrance presented his new Borghese sofa that naturally reminds of a tree because of a network of branches rises up the back to hold up three cushions in place. The inspiration was got from the pine trees of Villa Borghese, the largest public park in... 
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