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Green Furniture: From the Archives
Dig deeper into these articles on Furniture from the TreeHugger and Planet Green archives.
We're always coming across new and exciting green furnishing design for the home. Also dig into our Design and Architecture category or search TreeHugger.com for keyword 'furniture.'
- Best of TreeHugger: Sustainable Designers parts I, II, III, IV.
- Sleeping Beauties (a roundup of beds)
- Where to find Greenguard certified office furniture
- Some beautiful examples of bamboo furniture include: the work of Sandor Pratt, the morphing Futaba love seat/coffee table, and the tables and chairs of Gorilla Furniture.
- Eco Home
- Ancient Modes recycled wood furniture
- Pacific Green uses Palmwood, a wood they originally found on abandoned coconut palm plantations in the South Pacific, which they sought out as an alternative to the destructive harvesting of tropical hardwoods.
- Harttman and Forbes makes window dressings from organic and renewable resources like papyrus and bamboo, and even has a take back program for when their products are ready for a new life.
- Bemz slipcovers are specifically designed to give new life to threadbare Ikea furniture.
- Piet Hein Eek are makers of lovely Dutch furniture artfully constructed from scrap wood.
- Furnature has a wide range of products made with sustainable and recycled materials, especially suited for people with chemical sensitivities.
- Crate & Barrel's bamboo Bento Collection (pricing $1000 and up for larger pieces)
- Bamboo veneer bed by John Kelly Furniture
- The Tio lounge chair from New Zealand lets its owner change its outfit.
- Edo Style Japanese bed from Haiku Designs made of farm grown mahogany
- Modern Bamboo, formerly known as Adapt Design, lots of tasty bamboo creations made of Plyboo from Smith & Fong, including stools and the Spring chair.
- Woodshanti is a worker-owned cooperative from San Francisco. They are certified by SmartWood to label their products as harvested from well managed, FSC certified forests.
- Pacific Rim, from Eugene, OR, sells sustainable beds and other furniture with hand rubbed with natural finishes.
- The Swiss designed and made Chmoebel line is constructed of pieces that fit so snugly they require no glues, screws, or fasteners or any kind.
- Benchmark makes furniture from FSC certified wood and natural upholstery. Rogan Objects, from father of Loomstate organic denim.
- Cohda has eclectic modern chairs made from reprocessed discarded plastic bags.
- Kirei board in an enticing engineered wood material.
- Furnishings from Koskela are high-end and super stylish.
- Cork is a renewable wood that is resilient and weathers well. TreeHugger has covered examples of cork in the form of a chaise, a stool, fabric, and a great many other things.
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