Bamboo is the it-material of the moment, popular in furniture, flooring, and accessories. It's fast-growing -- making it sustainable -- and it's incredibly versatile: the shoots are used in cooking, the sap can make a sweet wine, it's an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine, and the wood can make anything from chopsticks to musical instruments to rugs to bridges.
Some of the accessories are especially striking. There are these pretty bowls from Branch. There are bamboo handbags at Novica. And Ekobo has built their company -- a line of stylish home accessories -- around the product.
One more point. Lots of people are considering bamboo for their floors. While bamboo has a lot of green credentials, you should read this article on Treehugger before you buy bamboo flooring -- it gives some balance to the topic.
written on Friday Aug 10, 2007
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