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Materials
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What Are the Next Steps for Post-Pandemic Materiality?
Designers can help create healthy, safe interiors with thoughtful surface and filtration selections.
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Grace Farms Takes Aim at Modern Slavery in the Building Industry
The foundation’s Design for Freedom report and initiative aim to raise awareness about forced labor in material supply chains and construction.
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Tri-Lox Designs With Forest Health in Mind
The Brooklyn-based studio has designed for some of the world’s most innovative brands—all while supporting forests.
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Recycled Glass Products Are Slowly Going Mainstream
Although glass is a perfect candidate for the circular economy, single-stream recycling and perceptions of recycled content remain significant challenges.
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Materiality in a Post-COVID-19 World
Designers can help create healthy, safe interiors with thoughtful surface and filtration selections.
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Q&A: Vinu Daniel on Building with Mud, Brick, and Waste
Making use of readily available resources, the Indian architect advocates for the value of earth and waste as building materials.
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Understanding Sustainable Solutions for Ceramics
Capable of enduring for thousands of years, ceramic products and materials present ecological challenges when discarded.
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Two New Flooring Products Expand Low-VOC and Recyclable Options
Manufacturers Tarkett and Smith & Fong have expanded offerings suitable for LEED-targeted commercial interiors.
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What They’re Specifying: Assembledge+
Commercial and residential interiors by Los Angeles—based Assembledge+ reflect its father-son principals’ passion for craft, case goods, and California Modern.
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A New Generation of Aluminum Is Stronger and Less Carbon-Intensive
New forms of the highly abundant and ubiquitous material double down on its recyclability and explore ways of reducing its carbon footprint.
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Two New Collections Push the Envelope on Recycled Materials
Maharam's new upholstery collection and Pure + Freeform's latest cladding launch are centered on postconsumer content.
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Debunking Common Misconceptions Surrounding Materials and Cleanability
Health and wellness expert Rod Vickroy provides some guidelines for selecting the right materials for different projects’ cleaning needs.
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Divert By Design: 14 Products Made With Recycled Content
Manufacturers are starting to normalize products with recycled content at a higher rate than ever, in their quest to reduce carbon emissions and curb waste.
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Material Bank Now Offers 100% Carbon Neutral Shipping
The innovative company continues to develop low-carbon solutions to minimize the environmental impact of sampling.
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Profiles
Ladies & Gentlemen on the Mystery and Magic of Light and Materiality
The Brooklyn-based studio's design philosophy and process are informed by empathy and intuition.
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Understanding Nylon Alternatives
Bio-based and regenerated versions of this powerhouse plastic provide sustainable options.
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Projects
A New Project Repurposes the Plywood of Boarded Up Storefronts
Plywood Protection Project by worthless studios awards materials and grants to five artists in order to transform boarded up storefronts into public art installations
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The Metropolis A to Z of Surfaces
The September 2020 issue of Metropolis featured 26 articles exploring how the superficial world goes much deeper.
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Ross Hansen’s Objects Span the Playful to the Grotesque
In a new exhibition at Chicago's Volume Gallery, Ross Hansen transposes nature’s excesses to a startling, yet exquisite effect.
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Products
Seven Tiles Illustrate Innovation and Traditional Techniques
Purveyors of ceramic tile show that pattern, material, history, and technology can all be a part of this ancient surface treatment.