Abbott Miller

"Abbott Miller and his colleague Brian Raby traveled to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to study how the local furniture industry used Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified wood harvested from Bolivia's forests to bring their designs to life.

Miller and Raby's chair design, made from jatoba wood, yields three chairs per sheet of plywood with minimal waste. To save space, the chair's components can also be shipped flat and dry-assembled with a rubber mallet."

This is just one project in a series of similar projects from Design for a Living World, an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt. If you are in New York, go see it for me. If not, you seriously should check the book out. It is gorgeous and inspiring.