This low-profile chair is made of renewable materials like raffia and wicker. It’s priced at $349.90 plus $86 shipping (currently on backorder). Available from Horchow.

This “donut chair” is an example of modern wicker design. The dark two tone color comes for the natural color of the rattan. It has a washable cotton cushion.

Rattan furniture is durable, smooth to the touch and made from plants that grow quickly and replenish easily.

Available from Surroundings for $295 each.

They also have this rattan Tika Armchair:

Even retail stores sometimes offer efficient bent plywood furniture, like Hold Everything which sells this “Bent Ply” chair. You may need to go to their site and zoom in to get a good look at the wood grain.

Available in four different stains for $88 (including shipping) from Hold Everything.

This attractive “Kinetic Santa Catarina” chair (below) is available from HomeClick for $98.

This cork chaise lounge, designed by Daniel Michalik, qualifies as being ultrametaefficient because it is: made with a renewable material, light, aesthetic, waterproof and impervious to rot and mold. It can be used indoors or outdoors.

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The furniture featured here is definitely multifunctional, serving both as a lamp and as a table or chair. It is however, too expensive to be meta-efficient. The chairs below are priced at $2850 and the tables above go for $650-999. The ideas are intriguing though, and if built with eco-effective materials, would qualify as being meta-efficient.

Links: Kubo and B9 Furniture

This minimalist rocking chair is made of renewable banana leaves and rattan. It has a steel base. It is quite comfortable to sit in and massages your pressure points a little.

Available from: Ikea ($59)

This chair is made of 100% white oak salvaged from wine barrels discarded by California wineries. It is treated with linseed oil. The chair folds together like so:

The price for one chair is $125. They also construct other furniture.

Available from: Whit McLeod

This stool is composed of a single piece of lacquered beech veneer.

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The Oto chair is made from
a single piece of molded beech plywood. It is part of Peter Karpf’s Voxia line
of furniture. The chairs are shaped into their 3D form in one continuous process — this
minimizes cut-away wood and energy used in manufacturing.

The beech plywood comes from a sustainably
managed forest in Belgium close to the production plant. The beech is rotary
cut into peeled veneer, using the entire tree trunk.

Designer:
Peter Karpf
Website: FutureProof/ed

These chairs are made from bent maple plywood, using a technique
that consumes 1/8 of the wood normally used in construction.

The seats are webbed with recycled automobile seatbelt material. As you might
expect, this material is extremely strong and does not sag.

Danko produces
a range of similarly designed furniture in their Pennsylvania workshop.

Designer: Peter Danko
Website: PeterDanko.Com

This chair, designed by Josh Levy, and inspired by the earlier works of Frank
Gehry, is constructed with recycled corrugated
fiberboard. The surface is soft
and brushed to feel like suede. Corrugated fiberboard consists of
linerboard (the flat exterior) and flute (arched
and sandwiched in between). When the two are adhered together,
they resist bending from all directions.

Designer: Josh Levy
Website: Vivavi
Price: $345