Vitamin Green and Sustainable Design

Written By Robin Wade

Vitamin Green and Sustainable DesignVitamin Green and Sustainable Design

 
In these urgent times of environmental concerns, Vitamin Green, published by Phaidon, gives us excellent examples of sustainable design.  Vitamin Green defines itself as a ‘visual definition of sustainability in design.’  Through striking images, take a look at what Vitamin Green has to offer.  A vertical garden, The Living Wall at the Musee du Quai Branly by Patrick Blanc with Gilles Clement and Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Harmonia 57 by Triptyque, lightbulbs called Plumen 001 by Samuel Wilkinson, a non electric incubator, Embrace Infant Warmer, and a carbon neutral city, Masdar City by Foster + Partners in the UAE.

Vitamin Green and Sustainable Design

 

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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