
URL: ANIMAVI | AltBuild Expo
Animavi introduced their newly launched high-end sustainable furniture line at the Alternative Building Expo in Santa Monica with Venare! AltBuild Expo offers over 150 exhibits featuring manufacturers of green building materials, landscape and water conservation products, retailers, interior design products and furnishings... etc etc...
The pictures above show their Club Chair & Ottoman with vegetable tanned leather :-)
All of their products are well made with care taken to observe sustainability and clean manufacturing practices.
- The frame is made with stainless steel that has a minimum 25% post-consumer recycled content. And it can also be recycled at the end of life.
- Internal seat and ottoman form can be reclaimed by manufacturer and recycled.
- Vegetable-Tanned leather is heavy metal free.
- Cushion (not on the photo) is biodegradable.

Here is a picture of the founders and owners of Animavi, Laurie & Darin on the right. And Lisa (Director of Sustainable Design) flew in from Wisconsin for the show and is in the center photo chatting it up with a customer! Very nice friendly people :-)
One of the companies they like working with is called 3form. 3form not only offers a wide variety of visually exciting materials to work with, but they are also devoted to sustainability. This was my first time seeing the chair with the 3form resin in place (still in development), but it looked very hip :-)
They will be refining the design with drainage holes for outdoor applications, and it will be created in various different colors with 3form materials as well as eco-friendly vegetable tanned leather. How exciting!

I really liked the orange color they had as a sample (pic above)
I would love to have two of the orange ones if we had a big backyard... ;-)
I wish my photos turned out better! It was tough to get good shots in the lighting environment at the Expo, but it was still cool to see their products in person! They will be at Dwell on Design Exhibition in June at the LA Convention Center :-) Stop by to check out their products when you have a chance!
If you want to attend the Dwell on Design Exhibition, you can get a free ticket at AdPerk.com :-)
Thanks Judy, for the cool info as always!!









