Wood Furniture

Wood furniture should be made and purchased with long lasting quality in mind. Changing wood furniture pieces every few years is pointless and damaging.

Wood furniture can even be made eco-friendly, you just need inspiration.

Back to nature

The meat of the tagua nut from Ecuador, for example, is called a vegetable ivory because it's hard and used for carving, but you don't have to kill any elephants. It is inlaid as decoration on the handles of the Zen Series, which is mostly bedroom furniture such as a night stand, dresser and armoire.

The top finish can be made with a substitute for polyurethane, made from refined tree sap suspended in orange peel solvent and was the most difficult material to find, it wears like the synthetics used on high-end furniture.

"There are adhesives out there that we can use, the problem is getting our manufacturers comfortable using them. We're looking to use other natural binders," "We're going back to the way they made things 100 years ago." A comment from an eco-friendly carpenter.