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DESIGN TOUCHSTONE "For me, products don't have to be shiny and new," says Frank. "They can be worn and rusted, and that adds character." His latest creation: Inkuku, a chair made entirely from plastic shopping bags, following a traditional African practice of using everyday discarded plastics to make objects for the home...
DESIGN TOUCHSTONE Seo's creations evoke a Zen-like simplicity, and he is resourceful, making chair covers out of old cashmere sweaters and picking rocks from his garden for dinner-party place cards. But it all looks sophisticated, and that is the rule. "If you don't have a stylish home, you're going to be disappointed," he says. "You won't care how green it is, because it's all about style...
...BREAKTHROUGH King founded Humanscale in 1983, but it wasn't until 1999, after partnering with designer Niels Diffrient, that he introduced his first chair. Today Humanscale accounts for approximately 20% of the market for high-performance seating...
DESIGN TOUCHSTONE "We try to boil our designs down to be as simple as possible, with fewer parts and less material," King says. The company's Freedom chair, for example, has 132 parts. A comparable chair from the competition has 275. King is lobbying to bring to his industry the kind of regulation that exists in the food business. He would like to see chairs labeled with sustainability scores based on their content. Humanscale would fare well: about 62% of the material in its Freedom chair is recycled. That's not material that is recyclable (although it's that...
...player in the campaign to bring Pinker to Harvard was Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., the chair of the African and African American Studies Department...