Trade As One

This week we’re beginning our partnership with Green Sahara Furniture in Morocco. Over the next few weeks, we’re featuring their products on our site. The twist is that we’re not asking for you to buy these products (yet), right now we need your feedback. We’re partnering with them to help them design and refine their products and designs for the fall. Your feedback will help them determine which products their fair trade artisans will be producing, and in what quantities. It’s a really unique opportunity for everyone to be involved in the feedback, design, and testing process that is an essential element of production. So click here to begin browsing through some of their products and giving us your thoughts. Read on to hear a bit more of their story and their values.

Their story started when David Bult, a Michigan native and furniture maker, decided that he believed that furniture and woodwork could make the world a better, fairer place to live. He says:

“I really believe furniture can have a great story from beginning to end, If you think about it, you look for this when you travel.  You walk through the souks and stalls and buy something that’s got character. Then, when you get back and people ask where you got this unique piece, you enjoy telling the story…I believe more and more people are looking to do good in the world, including where and how they spend money on interiors and furnishings.”

Green Sahara Furniture builds every piece on three principles: unique, handcrafted, and sustainable.

Unique: They offer fresh designs that blend great styling and function.

Handcrafted: They celebrate the human touch that crafts a piece of furniture.

Sustainable: They commit to treating workers fairly, using wood sustainably, and planting trees for the future. 

They also commit to limiting wood waste by using parts of the tree that are often unused, to using offcuts and recycled materials when possible, and to repairing and reusing aged furniture.  Taking that a step further, they also commit to replanting trees in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains for future generations to use and enjoy. 

Most of all, they intentionally hire people that would have difficulty obtaining employment elsewhere, and pay them fairly and on time.

Unique, handcrafted, and sustainable. Furniture that tells a story. Click here to browse through their products.