Wood You Like a Little Bamboo?
Date: October 5, 2007 | Category: Home Furnishings, The Home
I know I often espouse the environmental benefits of bamboo as a pillar of sustainability (if harvested sustainably and treated with non-toxic finishes). To drive the point home, consider these snippets of our favorite grass' splendor: Bamboo can be harvested in seven years versus the ten to fifty years it takes for softwoods and hardwoods. It also yields up to twenty times more material than wood, and one bamboo clump can produce 200 poles in the five years it takes one tree to reach maturity. For all your "wood" needs, bamboo is an incredibly durable and rapidly renewable alternative. And if you're not thoroughly convinced about integrating bamboo into your home or office for stylist reasons, Modern Bamboo has created some sleek pieces of furniture, exclusively using San Francisco based Smith and Fong Plyboo that might just be the accent you are looking for. You might want to slip into an ergonomically-designed chair that utilizes the flexibility of bamboo for a little rocking action or a stool that flirts with curvature - all treated with water-based dyes and finishes. But once you get a taste, you may want to have MB do some custom work and add more bamboo to your repertoire.
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