This stunning furniture line brings the great outdoors inside
Green Furniture Concept
Green Furniture Concept, on the other hand - with its naturalistic design and modular, snakelike arrangement - lets people have a never-ending relationship with the great outdoors.
Green Furniture Concept
The latter detail gives the furniture a delicious "new-bench smell, " according to Sandra Afeyan, the company's director of sales and marketing.
Green Furniture Concept
While the concept began with a chair built from a single piece of wood back in 2007, by Swedish designer Johan Berhin, it wasn't until earlier this year in Chicago that the European company made its North American debut.
The unveiling took place at this year's NeoCon design conference, where Green Furniture Concept won the silver medal in the Best of NeoCon bench division.
Green Furniture Concept
Whenever people catch a glimpse of the furniture, the reaction is fairly typical: a reflexive mix of confusion and awe.
"And we do different colors but no one wants different colors," Afeyan tells Tech Insider. "We do orange and green and blue and yellow, but people want to stick to this beautiful natural look."
If the benches aren't eye-catching, the trees certainly are.
Green Furniture Concept
The dampened acoustics help serve larger quiet spaces, like university libraries, which can easily give off cold vibes to people staying there for extend periods of time.
"The other really neat feature about wool is that it's anti-static," she says. "So cleaning this thing is really easy."
Green Furniture Concept
The company just introduced wireless charging capabilities at the end of each bench and has plans to include built-in garbage cans and flower planters, "so it's more of a system for public spaces."
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