The European Food Safety Authority, or EFSA for short, has defined the term microplatics - these are plastic particles between 0.1 and 5 mm in size. One of the most popular plastics is PET, or polyethylene terephthalate. Which is what exactly? Bottles for beverages, household chemicals, food containers and our clothes....WHO recommends drinking minimum 2-3 [...]
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A microplastic that we will live with forever
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Microplastic – Where can we find it?
On June 7, scientists in Canterbury, New Zealand, announced in the journal Cryosphere that microplastic was discovered in the vast majority of 19 samples collected in various parts of Antarctica. So far, the areas associated with environmental poisoning by this micro-junk (or micro-crap) have been in places inhabited by humans. Due to its innocent white [...] More -
Magnificent cork.
Cork oak is unusual tree whose more than a half population can be found in Portugal and Spain. One of the advantages of this tree is that it doesn’t need to be chopped down in order to acquire the cork, because it is made of the bark without harming the tree. Every year the bark [...] More -
Fragility frozen in depth.
For ages gold was a symbol of power, good fortune and wealth. Golden items underlined social status and prosperity of the owner. High value and limited acces to this ore had significant impact on gilding – a proces of covering goods with gold. Thrones or painting frames, coverd with thin layer of this valuable metal [...] More -
Creating a child’s world – the role of facial dialog
When building the world around us we want our nearest space to have positive influence on our health and well-being. Workplace, house, apartment or room – while arranging them we take into account both beauty and functionality. And when a child appears in our world, we do our best to adjust the world to support [...] More -
Oakwood
Since ages oak has been considered a symbol of great strength. This is proven e.g. by the fact that in Rome oak leaf wreath was a head decoration not only for Caesars, but also of other victorious leaders. It was believed that oak had magical power. Oak is first of all heavy, hard and of [...] More -
Material of the future – Tyvek my love!
While observing the market of innovative materials, we came across a fabric with a surprising structure. At the first glance it looks like a piece of crumpled paper, but it is only an illusion. In fact it is the so-called Tyvek, i.e. material invented in 1955 by an American company DuPont. This invention, as in [...] More -
Water-based varnish – safety and comfort of use above all
When creating our lamps we focused especially on selecting the right varnishes, to make sure they can be used also by the youngest ones and by allergy sufferers. We would like to clear all doubts and fears related to the safety of having contact with varnished wood surface. The lamps have been covered with a [...] More
