FEDERLEGNO for WORLD FOREST WEEK

Federlegno-Arredo, the Italian Federation of Wood Industries, Cork, Furniture and Interior Décor donated an enormous wooden chair for World Forest Week to be celebrated in Rome, March 16 - 20, 2009 to the FAO (the United Nations Food and Agricolture Organization). The chair will be kept on permanent display in the FAO headquarters hall.
This chair symbolizes the value of wood as the versatile and energetically efficient 100% recyclable and ecological raw material par excellence it is. The chair is over 4 meters high and 2 meters wide, and entirely constructed in pine. In front of the chair, a sign indicates the amount of carbon dioxide stored inside: the 5 tons of wood composing the chair contain a quantity of CO2 equal to 9.15 tons.