Artful Rusticity: Organic Furniture by Urban Hardwoods
In many if not most places, when a tall old tree becomes befallen with disease and must be torn down, it gets chopped into firewood or hauled to a landfill. Not in Seattle, where a furniture company called Urban Hardwoods salvages doomed sycamores, elms, walnuts, Pacific madrones and other species and fashions them into one-of-a-kind household pieces.
The company makes a range of hand-crafted products, including dining and coffee tables, desks, side tables, benches and headboards. Each is marked by rich-grained wood and a distinct organic shape: a black walnut dinner table branches into a "Y"; a coffee table made from the cross-section of red cedar bears the outline of a clover leaf.
Urban Hardwoods has two showrooms, one in Seattle and another, opened this month, in San Francisco. It ships to all 50 states. The pieces range from $1,000 to $10,000.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ianny Apr 12th 2009 10:08PM
Very environmental friendly indeed, especially if the tree was fallen to begin with.
Consider a Nature theme for the home - it can be achieved with the generous use of wildlife photographic prints.