Wood is the most ancient raw material used to produce furniture. You can find old wooden beds in the Egyptian Museum of the city of Turin, Italy. The tiny woodworm holes, the grey colour are the sole indicators of the age of those beds nevertheless, one could hardly tell that they are over two thousand years old. Wood is a natural material and one of the most resistent along with the iron. Its colour, texture varies on a wide scale depending on the type of wood but even in relation to the place of origin and the changes of the climate.
Some people are convinced that bedroom furniture should be manufactured just of solid wood. They claim that only solid wood enables the ideal energy flow within and around the human body, thus only a solid wood bed can insure perfect relaxation while sleeping.
Others, mainly environment friendly people, see wood as a renewable resource. Their positive attitude towards solid wood furniture might contradict the idea that cutting down trees is not really an enviroment friendly action...as long as the tree that has been cut down to produce a furniture cannot be recovered by the time the costumer needs to change that particular piece of furniture. Solid wood furniture -unlike the cheap, glued wood powder ('faceplate') furniture, widely spread in the trendy cash & carry furniture shops, are durable (they last at least for 20 yrs) and so the consumer does not need to buy new furniture till the newly planted trees mature (actually, most solid hard wood furniture last for over a human's lifetime). Durability and the biodegradabelity makes solid wood furniture environment friendly.
The Albero Vivo solid wood furniture are made of solid European and American hard wood only. Below we tried to give you a hint about which type of wood would fit you and your home best.
Maple (Acer) -if you like cozy
Nice, light colour wood, that varies from light beige to white. It fits best a friendly, cozy classic or country style home. If you are the type of person, who is easily brought down by the dark weather, the light colour, nice texture maple wood furniture is the best choice for you.
Oak (Quercus) -if you want something sexy
The sexy wood from France and Central-Europe. The oak's natural colour is golden-brownish, it's texture is exotic and really beautiful. Modern design furniture made of oak stir up your senses. You cannot walk them by without being touched deeply. Oak is one of the hardest and most appealing wood of all, for strong personalities only.
Black Walnut (Juglans Nigra) -if the very best is not enough for you
Walnut is the wood of the kings and the king of the woods. The king of Piedmont (today part of Italy and France) made his interieur designer cover an entire ball room in one of his ace palaces with the root of walnut. Black walnut is growing in the warm, meditteranean climate. The black walnut has a dark silver-brown colour and is highly elegant, it also has a very nice texture. The yellowish stripes in the wood are accepted by the professionals -unlike the whitish stripes in the oakwood.
Beech (Fagus) -a woodart for families with children
Beech is a hardwood (one of the hardest in fact), with a beautiful beige-pinkish natural colour and spotted texture. You get a warm feeling just by looking at this type of wood. Beech is the perfect hard wood alternative to the soft wood pine. Beech can be stained very well, just like the pine, if you wish so, but your children will for sure not ruin the surface of your beech wood bedroom furniture as easily as that of the pine ones. Added to all this, beech, despite of its outstanding characteristics, is still not extremely expensive because there is a relative large supply. In other words, beech has the best price-value ratio from far.
