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Furniture Essentials
Types of Wood
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. has established a list of
approved woods that we utilize in our
furniture. We are very particular about the
source of our hardwood, and only use woods
that are plentiful and not endangered or
included on the“red list” (soon to become
endangered if not carefully monitored).
Generally speaking, wood is often put into one of
two categories – hardwood and softwood.
But what exactly makes a given piece of wood
qualify as either hard or soft and how did those
definitions come about?