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.
Since 1999, designer Rodney Trice has gathered found objects and refitted them to growing cult acclaim. He calls his art, which includes propeller blades turned into this ceiling fixture and a heavy tenement door reconceived as a tabletop, "applied deconstruction." "Every piece I do has a story," he says.
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