While recycled denim creations may not be a particularly new concept, CScout Japan points us to a nice example of recycling jeans into a hand-made piece of furniture.  You send in three pairs of jeans (or other pant material) to the furniture manufacturer, NOyes, and they turn them into a custom stool.  The NOyes website has a video and step-by-step guide on how the stool is made by hand.
A custom denim stool takes three weeks to make and costs ¥36,720 ($400).
[via CScout Japan]