Call it responsibility or accountability. Or simple popular demand. The rarefied world of design is embracing the environment as never before. Top architects are implementing revolutionary methods. Fashion and furniture mainstays are manufacturing products using sustainable materials. And luxury empires are establishing credos on issues their customers are still waking up to. Behind the scenes, trailblazing executives are taking big risks to make it all happen — beautifully.
Despite its Zen-like aesthetic, the X-Table from Ethan Allen — made of Appalachian hardwood and topped with a water-based finish — gets its central graphic not from the Asian symbol for life energy, chi, but from the everyday simplicity of a sawhorse.
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