The makers who are growing forests through design.
The story behind our brand.
We make furniture, but that's the second thing we do. The first thing we do is grow trees. A piece of ours spends years as a living tree in Nicaraguan soil before it ever becomes a chair. We like it that way. Furniture built this slowly tends to last.
In 2002, Aram Terry came to Nicaragua as a Peace Corps volunteer. He watched forests fall. Truck by truck, they disappeared.
He asked a simple question. What if furniture could grow forests instead of clearing them. In 2007, he founded Maderas Sostenibles. The work was reforestation. He planted trees on land stripped bare for cattle. He salvaged hardwood downed by hurricanes.
The trees grew. So did an idea. A forest can pay for itself through design.
We've planted more than 1.3 million trees. Wildlife has come back to land that used to be bare dirt and cattle. We plant 100 trees for every piece we make, and we count them, because a promise like that only means something if you can prove it.
Nearly two decades in, and we're still growing.
Every design we make uses renewable solid wood that we grow in our reforestation projects. With over 1.3 million trees to date, we are changing the way furniture is made.