Eco-friendly Materials for Lights
BC Design Group Makes Environmentally-friendly Modern Chandeliers
Propellor Design, in Vancouver, Canada prides itself in using the latest environmentally-friendly products to illuminate both chandeliers and customers.
Light fixtures are already difficult enough to source if you’re looking for something original. But what if you’re after a modern chandelier built by true artisans who value both design and the environment? Then you turn to the trio team at Propellor Design in Vancouver, BC, who use a range of eco-friendly materials such as paperstone, ecoresin and bamboo.
Having environmentally-responsible lighting fixtures goes well beyond using compact florescent lightbulbs (CFLs). In the world of decor and aesthetics, what’s on the outside counts as much as the inside, so who better than these art-school-educated, citizens-of-the-world to combine form, function, and environmental responsibility?
100% Recycled Paperstone
Probably one of the most innovative materials they use is paperstone. This is a man-made composite material that resembles soapstone. While made of up to 100% post-consumer recycled paper, the final product is extremely hard and durable (it’s used for countertops as well). It is FSC-certified, non-toxic, heat-proof, stain resistant and comes in a variety of beautiful, warm colours. It’s also extremely dense, making it possible for Propellor Design to do its signature dowel-work, creating patterns of light and shade. As a chandelier, it provides a natural warmth and glow to the fixture, partly due to the cashew nut oil in the material.
Non-toxic Greenguard-certified Ecoresin
One of Propellor’s signature pieces is the Cumulus chandelier, which uses hand-cut and hand-strung pieces of translucent ecoresin. This product is a polyester resin that is amazing both in how it looks and how it’s made. With 40 times the impact strength of glass, these seemingly delicate pieces of luminosity manage their beauty while being Greenguard-certified, are entirely non-toxic without any offset gases, and contain 40% post-industrial recycled waste. And, of course, it comes in nearly any colour imaginable.
Sustainable and Renewable Bamboo
For their geometric, architectural Calvino chandeliers, Propellor Design purchases bamboo that’s been specifically grown in ISO 9001- and 14001-certified factories in Zhejiang, China. Unlike many other bamboo products that are harvested at a very young age, this product is sustainably harvested when it’s 5½ - 6 years old. Ecologically, bamboo is an ideal wood product to use commercially because it releases 35% more oxygen into the environment than typical hardwood varieties, while capturing and removing a great deal of carbon from the air with its dense, leafy canopy. Also, unlike other trees, bamboo renews and regenerates its leaves several times in its lifespan, intensifying the cycle of oxygen production and carbon filtering.
Read more about Propellor Design’s modern chandeliers.
Propellor Design, 949 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V68 7R9, +1.604.682.6665 studio@propellor.ca
