design founded 2004 brooklyn new york united states headquarters red hook brooklyn united states products sustainable furniture website www.uhurudesign.com uhuru s original design stoolen designed 2004 uhuru s coney island inspired cyclone lounger designed 2010 uhuru design is a brooklyn based design and build sustainable furniture company known for its reuse of used materials . 1 founded in 2004 by rhode island school of design risd graduates jason horvath and bill hilgendorf uhuru s acclaimed material reuse projects includes reclaiming and hand working wood from the coney island boardwalk 2 3 and kentucky bourbon distilleries 4 as well as upcycling found materials . 5 uhuru has work in the renwick gallery of the smithsonian institution 6 and the brooklyn museum of art 7 and featured in the milwaukee art museum architecture & design museum in los angeles and the new museum in new york city . 8 uhuru builds each piece by hand in their brooklyn workshop and has a showroom at the same location . uhuru has collaborated with designers and architects worldwide as well as artists such as maya lin for the cooper hewitt 9 and dan colen at the gagosian gallery . references edit hickman matt . uhuru design makes war inspired furniture not war mother nature network june 8 2011 . retrieved on 9 26 2011 . calder rich . room and board new york post may 10 2010 . retrieved on 9 28 2011 . ny magazine the best bet new york may 2 2010 . retrieved on 9 28 2011 . dunn collin used whiskey barrels gen new life with uhuru design treehugger march 22 2008 . retrieved on 9 28 2011 . fehrenbacher jill uhuru design stoolen chair inhabitat may 15 2006 . retrieved on 9 28 2011 . smithsonian american art museum 40 under 40 craft futures smithsonian american art museum july 1 2011 . retrieved on 9 28 2011 . brooklyn museum collections decorative arts standard side chair brooklyn museum march 2 2010 . retrieved on 9 28 2011 . katcher joshua uhuru designs new museum sustainable cafe the discerning brute september 17th 2010 . retrieved on 9 28 2011 . johnston wade reclaim re use recycle brooklyn based uhuru furniture modular four july 9 2010 . retrieved on 9 28 2011 . external links edit new york city portal companies portal official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title uhuru design & oldid 727783013 categories companies established in 2004 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 july 2016 at 06 10 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view