Have you heard of NewWood yet? I hope this 100% recycled material will be coming to building projects near you very soon. It may not be the most beautiful thing I saw at KBIS, but it has to be among the greenest: I’m not suggesting anybody should use it as a finish material, but, as ...
I’m sure you’re all aware that the world of domestic lighting is undergoing big changes right now, as federal efficiency standards are scheduled to make incandescent bulbs disappear from store shelves by 2014*, LED technology improves in leaps and bounds, and compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs gain greater (if sometimes grudging) acceptance. At KBIS this week ...
Happy Earth Day, Good Friday, or whatever you might be celebrating this weekend. I suppose if I was truly dutiful, I’d be posting my list of 10/20/50 ways you can save the earth through simple lifestyle changes, but for one thing, everybody else has got there first, (including me myself on the Blanco by Design ...
I’m so flattered that I’ve been asked to join the BLANCO Design Council – it’s an illustrious but entirely honorary network of industry professionals whose job is… well there’s no job really, we just lend our voices and experience, and occasionally, if the mood takes us, help get the word out about BLANCO’s products. That’s ...
Are you ready for just a few more beautiful things from the show? The MADE section of the Architectural Digest Home Design Show was launched in 2008 to give individual artists and designers of limited edition and/or one-of-a-kind objects and furnishings an opportunity to promote themselves – and it was a real treat to walk ...
Fireclay Tile is one of our local treasures here in the San Francisco Bay Area – making beautiful artisan tile right on our doorstep in San Jose, and making it in ever more environmentally efficient ways, too: Lately they’ve been getting national recognition for the innovative re-use of landfill bound porcelain – a difficult material ...
I spent some time last week at West Coast Green in San Francisco. Fort Mason on San Francisco’s water front is always a great place for a conference: Edible gardens are brought in specifically for the conference, and attendees are encouraged to ride bikes, car pool, or take public transport to the venue. Plastic water ...