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Six Products with Nothing to Hide

Metropolis’s yearlong review of what designers should specify when transparency is a priority.

As an additional tool to help designers specify sustainable interiors, senior editor Kelly Beamon spent a year scrutinizing credits, labels, and claims to recommend products by companies practicing a high level of disclosure about their ingredients.

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