Greenwash This! - Elemente Magazine interviews Len Laycock

January 9, 2009

In a recent Upholstery Arts ad, next to a juicy photo of a condo-size, lime-green chaise sectional, CEO Len Laycock penned an open letter to his clients. "Terrible things that ought to be unthinkable have become normal," wrote Laycock. "In the furniture industry, ‘normal’ practices have resulted in chemical fire retardants from polyurethane foam contaminating your breast milk, toxic heavy metals from textiles in your blood, and a chemical stew of toxic volatile organic compounds from lumber, glue, stains and padding, off-gassing into your lungs."