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An Innovative Designer's Dream: Furniture Picture Essay by Jon Dougal Last month we told you about an innovative furniture company, Bloxes, making furniture from modular blocks of super-sturdy cardboard that can also build desks, even walls in minutes. This month, check out this new meaning of modular furniture — or is it sculpture? We've always wondered why people build green buildings then furnish them with traditional furnishings. Recently the Sustainable Furnishings Council was formed from the industry's home plate, Highpoint North Carolina. Of course contract furniture has almost always been on the sustainability curve, Herman Miller was probably one of the first to build their headquarters sustainably, then SteelCase, Haworth and too many to name all came along with the rapidly renewables materials, reclaimed woods, aluminum, and a recyclable product that could save the embedded BTU's into other generation's of product into perpetuity. Herman Miller took another step toward sustainability in the reduction of BTU's involved in shipping goods, by encasing their furniture in an envelope of recycled newspaper instead of using pallets. In this country we build 4.5 billion pallets a year that use 5.6 billion board feet of lumber which only ends up in landfill within 12 year. So along comes another concept towards sustainability by a company trying to condense the furniture into a tight little egg shaped shipping container. Take a look! the material and or the manufacturing doesn't have to be completely sustainable to still work towards reducing the amount of BTU's used in shipping their goods. Commendable We'd say. Get inspired!
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