One of the most positive things I have see in my years of researching green materials for interiors, is that increasingly mainstream manufacturers feel that they must have a green story to compete. It used to be that green counter top materials were made by small producers such as Vetrazzo or Paperstone, who just wanted [...]
One of the most difficult things to manage in the design business is delivering unpleasant news to a client. I think everyone who does this work wants to solve problems and create great results, but sometimes bad news….. happens. Recently one of my sources of organic towels discontinued a color, while I had an order [...]
I am very excited that I have just passed my LEED Green Associate exam. But, I realize that this is only exciting news if you know what the heck it means. As in any profession, there are any number of alphabet letters one can put after one’s name. Some mean more than others. If [...]
I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed for a blog radio program called 5 minute Eco, as part of How You Eco. It was an interesting experience to try and focus my usually blathering thoughts down to a concise length. I was asked to explain what a green interior designer was, and still leave [...]
I have a confession to make, I am not a natural modernist. I love modern design, and the constant striving for something that is purely original, clean and new. But I also realize that what I am more natrurally drawn to warm, referential modernism. I love the textile designs of the fifties, the modern furniture [...]
I love the integrity of architecture from different periods. Each style of home reflects the concerns, the dreams, the optimism and the fears of the period when it was built. An important consideration, when remodeling, is to be true to the architecture, the feeling, the gesture of the existing building. I don’t think remodels should [...]
I am extremely excited to be reading the various posts from NEO Con, the commercial interior design convention. So many well designed, and exciting products! Green products seem to have a strong presence, I am thrilled to see that sustainable design has penetrated deeply into mainstream product design priorities. I have always loved the textile and carpet [...]
Sometimes saving the environment seems like an exercise in denial: don’t buy things, don’t take planes, don’t use your car. Now personally, I think saving the world might be worth a teensy sacrifice, but it is lovely when saving resources also adds a little more comfort to your life.
How long before you want to [...]
I am encouraged that we seem to be having a backlash against huge homes. I don’t want to bash them, but they make me sad for so many reasons:
* Most importantly I do not think giant homes function well as a places that make the folks living in them happy and comfortable. If, [...]
Ok, I really love smart people, and especially smart people who can encapsulate a complex thought into clear quotation. I just came across the following quote:
“Environmental degradation is an Iantrogenic (physician induced) disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth… Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced [...]
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