OUR VISION OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
This century dawned with the imperative to integrate our use of resources to harmonize with nature’s delicate balance. We must embrace products which are eco-effective, and become keenly aware of the tyrany of tradition. Many objects of traditional design are profoundly inefficient in their use of resources, and some are even toxic to the biosphere.
We are committed to creating designs that offer a vision of sustainable beauty, mindful of our collective past, which radiate a warmth of future possibilities. We believe design can express the utopian spirit of intelligence over pretension and function over style. We expect our work will contribute to the design community, and build on this vision, extending it to the environments they create.
Danko employs ply-bending because it is the most sustainable of processes. As it is a relatively new medium,the decorative possibilities are vast.We are building a new esthetic for ply-bending, using it in combination with recycled and other sustainable resources. We seek unlikely materials with potential for richness, which leave little impact on the biosphere. Our ultimate goal is to produce affordable designs, simple and sophisticated, whose souls tell tales of sustainable beauty.