Plenty Magazine, May 2006

Your furniture doesn't have to be made with toxic materials or wasteful manufacturing methods. These six companies prove that everything from office chairs to lamps can be sustainable and stylish.

Q Collection's founders continue to prove their dedication to the environment; they even asked their supplier of goose down to feed his free-range birds organic pellets. The eco-friendliness of every rivet and thread is researched - a massive undertaking because upholstered furniture is made from 20 to 30 different materials. (Wood pieces have three to four.) They report findings to their advisory board, a group of environmental science professionals. Yet it is design, not science, that sells settees. Q collection uses soft angles, a feature that separates the company from the minimal/modernist herd, and it avoids the heavy look of some traditional furniture. Pieces are upholstered with [textiles from] hemp to satin wool, colored melon orange and mustard-seed yellow with low-impact dyes.