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Green Pledge
Loving our customers, to us, means also loving our planet, the house we all live in. This means committing ourselves in a responsible way to take care of the Earth, challenging ourselves to continuously reduce the impact our designs have, especially the “temporary” ones on the environment.
Our pledge is expressed in the 8 R of Fontemaggi, the guidelines we have chosen to respect every day in our work:
Our Roots in each action: towards nature, the environment, the next generations, society, our customers, our clients, our collaborators and ourselves.
Our Trunk: environmental sustainability can’t exist without being supported by a solid politics of reduction of waste. Therefore the trunk that supports our productions, often internal, is the attention to a conscious and responsible use of the resources and materials.
Our Branches: the Temporary Design has, for its nature, a limited life cycle. But in the better world we force ourselves to build, the objects, as designs for trade shows are as the branches that have a long life as they are made of durable materials and created to rule of art. The reuse we promote is made of designs that can be reused and readapted to our customers’ requests.
Our Buds: if it’s true that two alike gems don’t exist, it is also true that in Fontemaggi we know how to customise, repurposing elements and products of absolute excellence, that otherwise would have been disused. Lengthening the life cycle of our designs means, to us, fulfilling the request of our customers and, at the same time, contribute to the preservation of the planet.
Our Leaves: when the items we have created start to show signs of usage and tiredness, we remind ourselves that a good gardener doesn’t pull down a tree when some leaves show the signs of time, yet forces himself to nurture and heal him so he can keep on growing. In the same way our artisans repair our products turning them back new and perfectly functional.
Our Flowers: the result of our work continues to live, like a flower, when taken care of, preserves at length its splendour and can give beauty in a lot of different environments. One of our prides, is the rental service, which permits to avoid the production of new furnishings.
Our Fruits: the final result of the “work” of a tree is that fruit that will nurture a human, supplying him with the elements essential for life. We can say that a tree’s production cycle closes by giving new life to the humans. The same counts for our designs, once they’ve completed their life cycle, they are disassembled and split up by material so they can contribute to the creation of new items, for other uses, by other people.
Ecological Footprint
The industry in which we work is based on speed, allowed only by road transport, with the subsequent emissions of CO2 which damage the environment. To contribute as much as possible to improve the quality of the air we all breathe, we have chosen to rely on transport partners that aim to reduce CO2 emissions. But not only, we have decided to contribute actively to reduce our carbon footprint, and therefore we have a tree planted every transport done. You can check in detail the trees we plan and the CO2 emissions compensated thanks to our partner Up2You.
