Materials, Texture, Sustainability & Ethics
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Materials, Texture,
Sustainability and Ethics
A complete guide to specifying materials that look right, perform well and stand up to scrutiny.
Materials are the vocabulary of interior design. They determine how a space looks, how it sounds, how it
feels underfoot and underhand, how it ages, and what it costs. A beautifully conceived design built from
poorly specified or ethically compromised materials is a failed design.
This guide covers the essential material categories, how texture works in a space, how to think about
sustainability and embodied carbon, and the ethical questions that every professional designer now
needs to be able to answer. These are not separate topics — they are dimensions of every material
decision you make.