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Issue 62 - Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62

Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62 is the first issue of the year and always a great time to put our best foot forward. With Adam Goodrum, the loveliest man in design, as Guest Editor, we draw on his insights as a furniture designer, artist and educator to look at the makers shaping our design world. Sustainability has never been more important, and increasingly this is a consideration from the start with projects designed to address their immediate environment as well as the longevity of the planet. From the coldest winters to the most tropical of summers, addressing how we live in the environment is crucial to creating the perfect home.

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Ambro: Wood and Light
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Ambro: Wood and Light

From their Adelaide
workshop, Ambro manufacture doors, panels and tables that combine timber with
panels of translucent or coloured Luminate.


What’s more beautiful than exotic timber? Exotic timber
enhanced with dramatic shafts of light and colour. Operating out of their
Adelaide factory, which has been running for more than 20 years, Ambro
developed the translucent Luminate concept in 2000.

The exotic timbers that
they use are only from managed forests – this means that only 10% of
the forest is felled, then left alone for 10 years before the process repeats
itself. This thinning of the forest also has its own benefits; allowing more
sunlight through the forest canopy and reducing the threat of bush fires.

Ambro’s special translucent material is added to the timber to
create strips of light and colour. Opaque strips mean natural light is let
through a timber surface – for example in a front door or panel – or they can
be lit artificially to dramatic effect: for example in a feature wall piece or
table.

Ambro’s unique
technology of seamlessly combining translucent strips with either beautiful
timbers or vibrant colours has been released in a definitive collection of
doors and tables that are far beyond the ordinary.

Gibbon Group
gibbongroup.com.au

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Issue 62 - Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62

Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62 is the first issue of the year and always a great time to put our best foot forward. With Adam Goodrum, the loveliest man in design, as Guest Editor, we draw on his insights as a furniture designer, artist and educator to look at the makers shaping our design world. Sustainability has never been more important, and increasingly this is a consideration from the start with projects designed to address their immediate environment as well as the longevity of the planet. From the coldest winters to the most tropical of summers, addressing how we live in the environment is crucial to creating the perfect home.

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