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Tree-Hugger Factoid #31

2 February 2011, 14:19

Chairs are the most common piece of furniture thrown away.  The US EPA reported that furniture accounted for 9 million tons, or 4 percent, of our waste stream in 2005.  Revive it with new fabric or if you need to get rid of it, recycle it through reuse. Give or sell your own furniture to others.

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Posted by Julia Schafer | Comment [1]

This is a timeless promotional video of the making the Eames Lounge Chair. Pretty amazing that it is almost 50 years old.

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(Start clip at 9:20) Director Otto Preminger’s 1953 film The Moon is Blue is about the 24-hour romance between a playboy architect and a young woman he meets at the Empire State Building. The film takes place mainly in the bachelor architect’s apartment. What I found exciting about William Holden’s bachelor pad…

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Audio ::: Bryan Ferry

9 November 2010, 16:51

Audio ::: Bryan Ferry

I first saw Bryan Ferry with Roxy Music in 1976 at the now defunct Sam Houston Coliseum. I remember his then model/girlfriend Jerry Hall prancing around before the show and I thought how did a girl from Gonzalez, Texas end...

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