It is true, cork is a natural product, as well as wood normally used in furniture manufacturing. It is true that the production and sale of cork, especially in Sardinia, it is essential for economic growth and business of an important sector of the Italian (but also international) economy. But it is also true that today's cork production has decreased significantly and have been born in Europe activity of collecting and recycling of corks and other products made of cork, to preserve important ecological habitats in the process of extinction.
We're not writing this against the forced harvesting of cork and the production of articles of cork, but we are for change priority, for the choice of natural products but completely recycled and the transformation of industrial entities towards more eco-sustainable productions and for Nature.
So we were surprised to see that the 13 chaise longue designed by Pedro Campos Costa was in natural cork, not recycled.
