With innovation at its core, Crafted Hardwoods is showing how circular design and regenerative thinking can reshape the future of architecture and design. Wood has always been the darling of architecture and design. It features in almost every project brief and remains a hero material in sustainable design awards year after year. Yet the realities […]
For our latest lookbook, ADR is exploring eight interior and outdoor spaces that demonstrate the enduring popularity and warmth of timber. This selection is from our IDEA 2022 finalists and displays the confident and cohesive use of wood as a dominant material. Courtyard house, Ha Architecture with Kihara Landscapes and styling by Jess Kneebone Situated in the inner eastern […]
As technology invades every part of our lives these days, it’s difficult to imagine that in some parts of the world large-scale manufacturing is conducted without the aid of robotics, whether laser cutting of timber or fabric or the actual building of products. In Japan, however, there is a small city called Takayama situated in […]
Earlier in the year at Denfair, the American Hardwood Export Council invited six designers across Australia and New Zealand to use US hardwoods to create a bespoke piece of furniture. Each design was mapped from when the trees were felled in the hardwood forests of the US, tracking their environmental profile all the way to Australia, including the final design outcome.
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