We like San-Francisco-based furniture designer Andrew Perkins' take on sustainability: "Sustainable design is foremost about the quality and emotional longevity of the object," he writes. "[I know] that if the idea isn't present than the object will not persist."
Here we show two of Perkins' creations that surely will persist. The first are his Alumination Tables, which feature aluminum that has somehow been layered together with maple:
The idea of the hybrid is at the heart of this piece. Metal and wood are joined together to create a new material, one that is both structural and beautiful. Layers of aluminum emanate from a wooden center to show the organic potential in a man-made material.(more...)