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Where To Buy Sustainable & Ethical Furniture In Los Angeles
Eco furniture often gets forgotten about when thinking about making ethical choices. Whether it is mattresses or chairs, choosing to shop sustainably often means picking furniture that is built to last a lifetime instead of pieces that breakdown quickly. The most sustainable choice you can make is always going to be buying second hand, vintage, and antique so that you can give an item multiple lives instead of just one. It saves on extra energy usage, plus you can find one of a kind pieces! However, this can often be a time-consuming process and it is so important to support local craftsmen. As so many people are moving out of cities to country homes, we thought we’d share some of our favourite eco furniture companies based in LA.
The Citizenry
The Citizenry is a wonderful platform to shop from if you want to support artisans and craft from all over the world. By personally traveling to each country and using only local materials, the Citizenry establish sustainable relationships with their artisans. All items are handmade with time honed traditions and craftsmanship. Each item is handcrafted, hand numbered, and available only in limited quantities to ensure it’s as extraordinary as the culture that inspired it. They provide good wages and working conditions, as well as sustainable grants for artisans to grow their work. The pieces are beautiful and reflective of the countries the come from.
Avocado
Not only does Avocado make some of the most comfortable mattresses out there but they are totally environmentally conscious and ethical. Handmade in California, their mattresses are non-toxic and made from certified organic materials, sourced from Avocado’s own farms. Now you can really sleep soundly. They are only one of three mattress brands globally that have a Made Safe certification. Avocado is the first mattress brand to be Climate Neutral Certified as they achieve net-zero carbon emissions. They even offset more carbon then they generate. Plus, they make sustainable sheets, pillows, and beautiful eco wooden furniture.
Cisco Home
Cisco follows every guideline and certification out there to ensure they operate as sustainably as possible. They make sure all of their materials are FSC-certified, from their wood to stains, to natural fabrics. Plus, they only work with vendors who are Certified Fair Trade. Cisco’s furniture is all timeless, classic staples, and they don’t work to fit into trends, but rather make pieces to last multiple lifetimes. Each piece is made by skilled craftsman, not a machine, who work intending to make as little waste as possible. They ensure each maker is supported, made a livable wage, and provided with health insurance – a standard that shouldn’t be unique. They even have a garden in their Los Angeles factory, for each of their makers to take seasonal produce home with them at the end of the day.
Medley
This LA based company was founded by two brothers, who have been committed to creating sustainable furniture since 2005. Medley only use materials that are nontoxic and certified as clean and sustainable from organizations such as Global Organic Latex Standard, Forest Stewardship Council, and Global Organic Textile Standard. They never use fire retardants, ozone depleters, heavy metals, pesticides, phlalates, or known carcinogens like formaldehyde. Sadly, most industrially made furniture is full of chemicals, which are bad for us and the environment. Luckily with Medley you can shop beautiful, timeless and long-lasting pieces that are made with everyone’s health in mind.
Whom
It doesn’t get much more sustainable than LA based furniture store Whom. Everything they make is handcrafted in their own factory in North America. Most pieces are made to order, limiting lots of waste. Their factory maintains a zero-waste policy – they reuse or recycle everything. They even take part in a closed loop recycling program, where each week 66,000 pounds of Styrofoam is collected and diverted out of landfills and reused in their mirrors, picture frames, and wall décor. Whom have a very high standard when it comes to materials, only using FSC certified domestic woods. They are 100% transparent, so you exactly where your furniture is coming from.
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