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Founded in 2004 By Anthony Marschak, Modern Bamboo combines classical simplicity with innovative design, offering furniture and custom design work using Bamboo and Reclaimed Wood. Produced using only the highest quality materials and the latest manufacturing techniques, our furniture embodies elegant functionality, seamless detail and timeless craftsmanship.

The Modern Bamboo collection evokes the minimalist beauty of designs by Sori Yanagi, Charles and Ray Eames, and Verner Panton, merging classic Modernism with contemporary advancements. Developed through years of experimentation, Marschak’s furniture capitalizes on the flexibility, strength, and endurance of bamboo in exquisitely simple pieces that showcase both expert craftsmanship and environmental sensitivity.

Bamboo has captivated designers, craftsmen and innovators for millennia. It is beautiful, enduring, light and rapidly renewable. For thousands of years, bamboo has been used where strength and flexibility are essential: in buildings, musical instruments, fuel, food fiber, and as a renewable material for furniture. Modern Bamboo has harnessed the tremendous strength, adaptability of this timeless natural material.
Modern Bamboo joins artistry with mindfulness, a new imperative for sustainable products of enduring beauty.

Modern Bamboo has partnered with Smith & Fong Plyboo to ensure the high quality of our furniture and architectural projects.
 
Since 1989, Smith & Fong Plyboo has been an innovator in the development of bamboo as an alternative building resource. Manufacturing renewable products that promote a sustainable approach to living continues to be a key objective of our business philosophy. Through research and technology we have been able to expand the applications of this universal material and venture into new materials that hold future potential.
About Bamboo
Beautiful, enduring, light, and ecological sustainable, bamboo has inspired human beings for millennia, and has been a benefit to people in Asia, Africa, and South America. It has been used as a building material with the strength of steel;  for writing and musical instruments, weapons, fuel, food, and medical products.
The fastest growing plant, bamboo is not a tree. It is a giant grass. Some species grow four feet in one day. Bamboo reaches full height in one growth spurt of about two months. When bamboo is harvested, the root system is unharmed and healthy, ready to produce more shoots. 1500 varieties of bamboo grow naturally throughout the world's tropical and temperate climate zones. The grass grows buds for three years, and in one tremendous three-month spurt, bamboo shoots reach full diameter and height. Another three years may pass before poles mature from soft starch into hard bamboo. Harvesting bamboo at maturity is the critical first step to insure strong and durable quality poles. About the 7th year of growth, when bamboo poles reach their peak strength and hardness, they are harvested before the quality declines.
Bamboo for building
Bamboo produces greater biomass, and 30% more oxygen than a hardwood forest of the same size, while improving watersheds, preventing erosion, and removing toxins from contaminated soil. Bamboo can be selectively harvested annually and is capable of regeneration without the need to replant. Unlike most forestry, proper harvesting does not kill the bamboo plant, so topsoil is held in place. "Timber Bamboo" can grow to 120 feet high, and the stalk can have a wall thickness of three inches. Bamboo poles are two to three times stronger than comparable wood timber. Bamboo can be harvested in seven years versus ten to fifty years for softwoods and hardwoods. It yields up to twenty times more material than wood. One bamboo clump can produce 200 poles in the five years it takes one tree to reach maturity. Bamboo can be sustainably harvested and replenished with little impact to the environment.