La Lune is also actively supportive of local environmental initiatives, including the UrbanEcolog圜enter, located on the MilwaukeeRiver a few blocks from the La Lune factory. School and civic groups of all ages regularly tour the La Lune factory in order to learn the La Lune philosophy and process from its founder Mario Costantini. La Lune’s furniture, factory, and company history provide a perfect educational tool to teach others about eco-friendly manufacturing. La Lune has helped to restore the neighborhood by rehabbing the building, providing jobs, and opening a youth center for at-risk children near the factory in 1989. La Lune’s human sustainability is an important part of its environmental sustainability in 1986, La Lune relocated its operations to an abandoned factory building in a central city neighborhood now called Riverwest. However, La Lune furniture is 100% bio-degradable, if it should someday be discarded.ĩ. La Lune furniture is designed and constructed to last for generations, will become tomorrow’s valuable antiques, and thereby will reduce negative environmental impact and landfill waste associated with cheaply made, disposable, non-degradable furniture. Finishes are applied in dip tanks in order to eliminate the air born pollution, energy costs, and waste products which are generated with typical spray booth applications.Ĩ. All La Lune finishes are non-polluting, non-toxic, non-flammable, water-based finishes which are locally manufactured exclusively for La Lune. La Lune markets and sells its products only in the US and Canada in order to reduce the shipping distance to its clients.ħ. This efficient “just in time” manufacturing process reduces the expense and the inefficiencies associated with the production and storage of finished inventory. La Lune carries no inventory of furniture and manufactures “just in time” as items are sold. Even wood shaving waste is used by local farmers for animal bedding.Ħ. Wood and other waste products are used to fire the kiln and heat the factory building. The La Lune factory and most of its machines and equipment date back to the early 1900’s. The turn of the century La Lune factory buildings and machinery have been carefully re-cycled and re-stored incorporating high efficient use of energy. These methods, although sometimes slower, use little energy and generate virtually no waste or pollution, just like a simple low-tech bicycle is slower but much more energy efficient and eco-friendly than any high-tech automobile.ĥ. Most processes are done entirely by hand using environmentally sound and efficient manufacturing methods. La Lune’s unique yet low-tech and low-processing manufacturing methods are eco-friendly and efficient. All methods of harvesting are low-tech and eco-friendly using only hand tools. All harvesting is done by hand by La Lune employees in order to maintain complete control and supervision of the harvesting process. All woods are harvested near the factory in Wisconsin, thereby reducing the negative impact and inefficiency of transportation and eliminating any impact on the rainforests of the world where much lumber is harvested by the furniture industry.ģ. La Lune harvesting is actually beneficial to the restoration of bio-diversity to forests which have been previously clear cut by the lumber industry.Ģ. La Lune harvests only fast growing and invasive wood species such as poplar and willow for the production of all its products. Many of our customers are surprised to learn that La Lune Collection just may be the most eco-friendly furniture company in the world.ġ. Since La Lune Collection’s inception in 1979, before eco-friendly became fashionable, we have been concerned about the environment and particularly about the destruction of the rainforest by the lumber and furniture industries. Please specify if using marble, stone, or other top - please inquire See Outdoor Use tab above for more information or to order for outdoor useīase accommodates customer's 20" x 20" glass top we recommend 1/2" to 3/4" thick tempered glass Rustic End Table with Willow Top #3288Īlso available with oak top for indoor use or cedar plank top for outdoor use - pls inquire This charming Rustic End Table is perfect for smaller spaces - marvelously constructed by hand, using the same simple tools and techniques employed by furniture c raftsmen for several centuries.
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