Connecting the Material's Natural Origin to the Application
A hardwood tree may be 55 feet tall and 24" in diameter, but today's high-recovery, high-yield sawing methods will not produce 24" wide boards. Profiling will reduce this board's width. Sustainable design makes the connection between source and product and accommodates accordingly.
Sustainable design respects a material's origin and connects it to the application.
It takes an especially large-diameter hardwood tree to yield the wide, long plank needed to make a very wide, long, clear moulding.
Since these are the exception, eco-effective practice achieves that look with finger-jointed mouldings or with several profiles that are built-up or stacked. The result is economical and responsible use of widely available material.
Eco-inspired designs embrace the distinctive signatures of natural materials precisely because they are not mass-produced and artificially uniform.
