“Everything you make returns to the Earth either as food or as poison.”
-Céline Semaan, The Slow Factory
Salt As A Medium
If you think about salt at all, chances are its about the role it plays in your diet. I admit, I generally think more about consuming salt than building with it. However, even the humble table salt (sodium chloride) has taken a seat at the design table (quite literally in the case of the pink…
Five Products Made From Pine Waste
There is perhaps no more iconic tree in the world than the pine tree. It carries with it nostalgic associations of the holiday season and exudes one of the most instantly recognizable scents (thanks to the aptly-named molecule pinene). It is a workhorse of a tree, providing pine nuts, lumber, pine rosin, wood pulp, and…