Who: Rocky Mountain Hardware – Hailey, ID

What: Tube Cabinet Pulls & Rail Cabinet Pulls

Where: Boston Decorative Hardware – Tube $80 for 6″ handle, sizes range up to 18″; Rail $41-$250 depending on size. Or call for a local retailer near you.

Why We Love It: Recently, we were on a mission to find eco-friendly hardware for a kitchen renovation and had a hard time finding a ‘green’ option. Luckily we stumbled upon Rocky Mountain Hardware at GreenBuild. They’ve got an immense collection of bronze hardware from faucets to house numbers (love these!) to latches to cabinet hardware to door hardware. Their designs have an old world charm with a modern sophistication. Great for a kitchen or bath or home that skirts the old and new. Click to continue »

Who: Roebuck Studios – Chelsea, MI

What: Chick Bookends

Where: Modern Nursery – $49 in black, blue, green, orange, tomato red,  yellow or white

Why We Love It: This one is for our 3 year old niece who just lo-oves chickies and is sure to have fun with these adorable bookends.  We love the simple design, the color selections  and the eco-conscious design. Click to continue »

Who: Mash Studios – Los Angeles, CA

What: LAX 3x Wall Mounted Shelf

Where: Exclusively Home – $690 (See also the LAX Wall Mounted Desk)

Why We Love It: This sleek design by Bernard Brucha is ideal for the apartment dweller or for someone who appreciates a neat, tidy and streamlined space. Love a piece of furniture that can be used in more ways than one.  Consider it survival of the fittest, this wall-mounted shelf adapts to your needs be it storage over your desk (particularly nice paired with the LAX Wall Mounted a bar or buffet, a media stand,  a headboard or a display case.

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Who: Ink + Wit – New York

What: Everything Counts Poster

Where: Fawn & Forest – $50, 16×20 (mat & frame not included)

Why We Love It: This is just the latest fodder for our obsession with number and alphabets poster. Tara Hogan’s “Everything Counts Poster” blends delightful graphics and a fabulous color palette (love love love the blue and red!) with an important message that all things, big and small matter, reminding us to find joy and peace and reverence for the world around us. It reads: “One Earth, 2 pears ready to eat, 3 trees to plant, 4 peace symbols, 5 high fives, 6 bowls to fill with food, 7 happy days, 8 cupcakes made with love, 9 wind turbines conserving energy, 10 cans to recycle…”

Artist Tara Hogan practices what she preaches, designing with the environment in mind. The “Everything Counts” Poster is offset printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper with soy inks and packaged in a recycled kraft tube mailer.

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Who: Areaware (Ross Menuez) – New York, NY

What: Kuma Pillow, Zig

Where: Exclusively Home – $54 with free shipping, also available in Dot, Feather, Fingerprint, Herringbone & Tatami

Why We Love It: We can’t wait to get our hands on this new collection of throw pillows from Areaware. The patterns are just incredibly cool, modern and colorful and fun. In fact, we were so taken by the Zig pattern when we first saw it, (these prints were first introduced as a limited edition collection of teddy bears), that we just couldn’t resist and ended up convincing ourselves that, yes,  it’s totally normal for grown-ups to have teddy bears… Suffice to say we were psyched to see the patterns resurface in a collection of throw pillows. (Trade you a bear for a pillow?) Click to continue »

Who: ReSnackIt – CT

What: ReUsable Sandwich Bags

Where: ReSnackIt – snack size – $7.99, sandwich size – $9.99 (Buy 3 or more ReSnackIts and receive 10% off)

Why We Love It: If we are going to change the way we consume, it helps to start with kids. We’ve seen 4 year olds reach for their reusable bottles and reusable snack bags, and they’ll certainly be reaching for them if they are as fun and brightly colored as the reusable snack and sandwich bags from ReSnackIt. With bags like these, who needs Ziplok? Not only do they help reduce waste being trucked to landfills (think about it, approximately 20 million plastic baggies are thrown away in US schools every week, every week! That’s insanity!), but they also keep harmful chemicals like lead, phthalates, BPAs and PVCs away from our food. Click to continue »

Who: naturevsfuture – Brooklyn, NY

What: Classic Cut-Out Dress w/Obi Belt

Where: naturevsvfuture – $278 in plum or indigo & now through June 3oth get 30% off with coupon code NVF/JUNE/30 (If you are in the NYC area you can check the collection out live & shop styles at 30-40% off at Mizu. Click for details.) Click to continue »

Who: Kalon Studios – Los Angeles, CA

What: Echo Dresser & Solid Bamboo IoLine Dresser

Where: Kalon Studios – Natural $1995 or Modern Nursery – Bamboo $1795

Why We Love It: This dresser caught our eye at the ICFF because of those clever handles. Such a seamless design and a brilliant way to integrate handles into the overall design, and from a green standpoint – no additional materials were involved in creating them, they we just chiseled out of the existing wood.

This is an incredibly eco-friendly design overall. Husband-wife design team Johannes Pauwen and Michaele Simmering, spent copious amounts of time trying to find just the right finish for their furniture, one that was eco-friendly, no heavy metals, low-VOC, HAPs-free (hazardous air pollutants) and non-toxic. Unable to find a satisfactory finish, they did it themselves and commissioned their own brand of natural wood oil finishes and paints to meet their high eco-standards. They also use non-toxic and water based glues. Click to continue »

Who: urbancase – Seattle, WA

What: The Ledge

Where: Kalon Studios – $1500 in walnut, $1300 in red (includes shipping)

Why We Love It: If you’ve been trying to figure out how you can squeeze a much needed work space into your ‘spatially-challenged’ apartment, look no further. We got a chance to check -in with Darin Montgomery of urbancase at the ICFF and got a first hand look at The Ledge, an ideal solution for the Not So Big House.

The slim desk measures 42″ x18″ x 7″ and mounts directly to the wall for a sleek look. Features include a removable block in the upper left hand corner to help tame and conceal power cords and a discreet shelf pulls out providing extra space for stowing laptops, record players, old school keyboards or whatever else you’d like stowed away. When the drawer is stowed away you are left with a streamlined buffet that works well with any decor.

Available in oil-rubbed solid walnut or painted formaldehyde-free MDF.

The Ledge is pictured with the One by One Chair a collaborative effort by Trey Jones & Darin Montgomery which is cushioned with salvaged off-cuts from the surplus army blankets used for the Subway Cushions.

If you like this and are looking for modern furniture and home decor items you should check out InhabitLiving.com they’ve got a great collection of cool modern items on sale and are offering free shipping on orders over $50.00.

Who: Studio Moe

What: Oslo Dining Table

Where: studiomoe.com, $2200

Why We Love It: We first discovered Moe Studios at ICFF last year and felt an overwhelming connection to their first retail collection. The simple lines, the meticulously handcrafted joints and the natural expression of the wood exude this sense of calmness and speak to the designers respect for the materials he works with. He doesn’t hide the knots (what some might call imperfections) or mask the grain, but instead celebrates that as part of the design. Click to continue »