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Casa Verde: Wooden Furniture That's Green and Budget-Friendly
Slate magazine recently answered a reader's question about affordable, earth-friendly furniture. Are the two concepts compatible? And what are the best options?
Designer Spotlight: Alma Allen
Self-taught sculptor and designer Alma Allen takes cues from the natural world when designing his found wood, stone, and bone objects. While Allen's work is visually stunning, it's also infinitely touchable. Each piece of furniture or sculptural object is painstakingly sanded and polished until it's perfectly smooth.
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How To: Renew Your Wood Furniture
As part of January's theme, Renewal, I'm bringing you How To posts that relate to renewing furniture you already own.
Wood furniture is a common feature in most every home, but without proper care, your wood surfaces can start to look drab and lifeless. Start to renew your furniture by polishing wood surfaces every week.
How-To: Remove Cigarette Odor From Wood Furniture
TeamSugar member linb recently wrote, "I acquired two wooden end tables from a friend who smokes, and unfortunately the stench came home with the tables. I'm hoping someone knows of a miracle product or trick that I can use to get rid of the smell."
I figured there may be more of you who need to remove cigarette odor for your wood furniture (inherited or not), so I've compiled a list of suggestions to make your wood furniture smell so fresh and so clean.
Designer Spotlight: Robert Austin Gonzalez
This weekend I stopped by the impressively well-curated FIVEten Studio as part of my monthly traipse through Oakland's Art Murmur open studios night. FIVEten was filled with gorgeous art and design work by the likes of Nolan Niu and Ross Lovegrove, but my favorite pieces were the turned wood furniture crafted by designer Robert Austin Gonzalez.
As you may already know, I'm a big fan of turned wood.
Roundup: Wild For Walnut
If you're a furnishing with the word "walnut" in your product description, the chances I'm saving my pennies for you are high. I'm wild for walnut! The fine wood is as durable as it is beautiful, and it only looks better with age.
In the News: A Worker of Ancient Woods
Brazilian woodworker Hugo França crafts the type of furniture that makes me crave a bigger house — one that would be big enough to fit his stunning pieces. França's monolithic furniture is inspired from the natural curves of the trees themselves, and often the shape of a trunk or branch will guide França in his use of the particular piece of wood. França, who spent 15 years in self-imposed isolation in northeastern Brazil, has spent the past twenty-odd years learning woodworking and sculpting trees into curvaceous, singular works of livable art.
Before and After: Reclaimed Lumber Bench
Oakland-based design-building studio Because We Can was hired by SunPower to create furniture for their new office in an old Ford manufacturing building in Richmond, CA. This enormous, potential-filled pile of lumber had been taken out of the building and slated to be dumped, but the studio stepped in, deciding the wood could be reclaimed to build something new. After mulling it over, they "decided that benches were the most feasible idea to use the lumber and keep costs down."
Designer Spotlight: Palo Samko
Brooklyn designer Palo Samko is profoundly gifted at marrying modern design with a rustic sensibility. His environmentally friendly products, which are made of recycled materials, are simply stunning, and absolutely crave worthy. Palo, a gifted woodworker, has started the eco-friendly Walnut Line of furniture, which is composed of chairs, cabinets, and tables made of walnut wood.
Coveted Crib: Slaughterhouse Fine
A former slaughterhouse in Ulricehamn, Sweden, was transformed into this fabulous coveted crib. Outfitted with furniture and accessories from around the world, the space feels much more metropolitan than you'd expect from a rural Swedish home. An extensive collection of artwork is mixed with both vintage and modern furniture.
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