The green choice

Our timber is from renewable plantations established by the Dutch started centuries ago with Brazilian saplings we do not use indigenous mahogany. In the manufacture of our furniture absolutely everything is done by hand. There is no automated mass manufacturing machinery and most importantly there is none of the following.

No MDF
No veneers real or engineered (plastic replica as dominates the high street)
No chipboard
No softwood ply

All of these materials require intensive heat processes, wax, water, glues, resins, formaldehyde.

By keeping to the natural product doing everything by hand and building furniture that will last generations the carbon footprint left behind is negligible in comparison to the mass manufactured furniture that dominates the high street.

One of the largest causes of carbon emissions is the level of consumption in the modern world this also applies to furniture. Look at cheap sofas filled with man made timber materials they last 3-5 years before creaking are generally unsuitable frames for recovering which costs more than the sofa did originally. So we throw away and get another, furniture with hardwood cabinet constructed frames can be recovered again and again. Steel and glass furniture requires huge levels of energy to manufacture and contribute heavily to carbon emissions.

It is frustrating that we keep making mistakes jumping to the first conclusion as far as the green choice goes we should be looking at the larger picture take the National Trust apparently oak trees are allowed to rot where they fall because it is carbon positive. Never heard such liberal stupidity, we are talking about English burr Oak worth many thousands of pounds per tree just how many new Oak saplings could we plant or carbon efficient Poplar!