Furniture made from old boats.
The fishermen from the West coast of Africa decorate their boats with brightly coloured geometric designs.
Artlantique Group Upcycled Boat Furniture
The team of Artlantique searches for, and buys old, no longer seaworthy boats to transform…
Every piece of Artlantique furniture is unique, as no two boats are ever the same. The “Samba” wood is left untreated.
原材料就是船本身。一方面,这也是这艘船及其前主人和家人的生命。生计的历史。另一方面,非洲的渔业和木工的联盟。这艘船的木头并不能掩盖沿着非洲海岸航行的数千海里。因此,每艘船的价值不仅体现在外观上,也体现在历史上。
Foosball –artlantique.com
Available in Stores in Barcelona and Paris
artlantique.com/point-of-sale
Furniture From Boats In Indonesia
All From Boats’furnitureis made from reclaimed boat timber, generally hard woods such as ulin (iron), teak and intaran (mahogany). Their source boats are found on the islands of Bali, Java, Lombok, Sulawesi and Kalimantan. All From Boats has made agreements with local fishermen; when a fishing trawler has become too expensive to repair and would ordinarily be burned as cooking fuel, the fisherman sell them, often earning several weeks pay. There is no pressure to sell and at he end of the transaction, everyone is happy.allfromboats.com
Located in Bali, Indonesia.allfromboats.com
The wood is 100% reclaimed, obtained from (40 to 60 year old) sea fishing trawlers.allfromboats.com
Furniture From Boats In South Africa
Shipwreck Furniture. The metal bits incorporated in some of the designs are all leftovers from the wrecks.shipwreckfurniture.com
Nic Kruger’s first shipwreck wood was from the Kunene, which was named after a river which is the border between Namibia and Angola. Nic has just found another wooden shipwreck, the Largo, so there are bound to be many more unique pieces of furniture to come.www.shipwreckfurniture.com
Furniture From Boats In The US
When Davita Nowland started scavenging for derelict wooden boats, she wasn’t planning on creatively recycling them into nautical furniture and starting a business; she was looking for a coffee table for her waterfront condo in Marblehead, MA. But the graduate from the University of Rhode Island’s College of Resource Development decided to build more than one…
Nauticals of Marblehead,MA is located on the 2nd floor in the Old & Historic District at 128 Washington Street, above the nautical shop “Ship Shape” where several of their coffee tables, bars and chart trays are available for sale.www.nauticalsofmarblehead.com
Furniture From Boats In Germany
Boat Kitchen – not from old wood – but could/should be… Originally found at alno.de/336.0.html
Anonymoussays
Wonderful!
Nancysays
I would like to know more about the company. Are your products fair traded? Who actually constructs this furniture?