East meets West in thrilling style when you outfit your home with elegant contemporary Asian furniture. But Asian furniture isn’t just great-looking, it also helps promote a cleaner, healthier Earth. That is because most modern Japanese and Asian style furniture is manufactured from eco friendly reclaimed wood, which helps promote re-use and waste reduction, and limits the amount of new logging necessary to manufacture our wood-based goods.

First, a discussion of aesthetics: Asian furniture is gorgeous in its simplicity, timeless in its engineering, and classic in its comfort and versatility. Usually made from exotic rosewoods or teak, “oriental style” furniture has a remarkably “natural” glow to it that is quite unlike most modern furniture, which seem to be hampered by a need to be overly shiny. The lacquered finish of these natural wood Asian platform beds, on the other hand, is polished without being an eyesore, a testament to the sophistication of unadulterated wood products.

A lovely Lotus Canopy Bed

Asian furniture, perhaps keeping with the Zen philosophy, is usually fairly simple and unassuming. It doesn’t need to be intricately carved or overly ornate; its beauty originates in its unassuming but still eye-catching design.

Magnificent and simple blonde platform bed

Another truly great feature of contemporary Asian furniture is that it is, generally speaking, manufactured to be eco friendly.

Sustainable furniture is a great way to help protect and conserve our shared environment. Now, “sustainable” can have a number of meanings. In a normal context, “sustainable” refers to furniture or products that come from wood plantations. These plantations replant every tree that they harvest in a contained and controlled setting, often using secondary-species instead of more vulnerable wood types. But sometimes, “sustainable” furniture, or green furniture, utilizes reclaimed wood. This is an increasingly popular method, as it does not require any new lumber to be chopped down, and it promotes a “recycle and reuse” policy revolving around waste mitigation. Much modern Asian style furniture is manufactured from reclaimed wood, especially reclaimed teak, which is not only beautiful but also exceptionally rare and a valuable, though limited, resource. By using reclaimed and recycled teak, furniture manufacturers do their part to give natural teak a chance to thrive.

Who knew reclaimed furniture could look this good?

So keep in mind, when designing your home, that Asian style furniture does so much more than sit there and look beautiful: it also can help conserve our environment and keep our world green. Find your own elegant Japanese platform bed or Indonesian bed, and be proud that you are helping to make a difference!

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