Rowe Fine Furniture provides eco-friendly, smaller-scaled furniture for exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York

Rowe Fine Furniture provides eco-friendly, smaller-scaled upholstered furniture to include in the exhibition Growing and Greening New York:  PlaNYC and the Future of the City organized and on display at the Museum of the City of New York.  The exhibition continues until April 12. Growing and Greening New York makes the complexities of greater environmental sustainability in New York City vivid, compelling, and understandable by bringing environmental concerns to life on an individual, human scale.  Organized in terms of a typical day in the life of a New Yorker, the exhibition explores six essential areas addressed by the Bloomberg Administration's ambitious five-borough plan for sustainability by 2030: water; transportation; energy; open space; land; and climate change. The exhibition features architectural models, furniture, interactive displays, diagrams, renderings, photographs, hands-on examples of new materials, videos, and more, many of which have been created expressly for the exhibition.   Growing and Greening New York opened with a gala reception on December 15 with Mayor Bloomberg in attendance.  The Museum of the City of New York is located at 1220 Fifth Ave.   Among nearly one hundred products and services lent to the exhibition are three pieces of Rowe upholstered furniture which are all eco-friendly as well as smaller-scaled, the latter being an additional consideration for individuals living in an urban environment as well as smaller footprint advocates. "We're honored to be included in such a relevant and landmark exhibit," said Stefanie Lucas, president & CEO of Rowe Fine Furniture.  "Rowe is committed to manufacturing environmentally-friendly furniture and to responsible manufacturing practices. We take a leadership role as a U.S. manufacturer committed to sustainability and we plan to be around to benefit from a cleaner environment." Growing and Greening New York considers issues, problems, and challenges facing N.Y. while also documenting solutions proposed by architects, urban planners, scientists, industrial designers, engineers, as well as by non-profit organizations, advocacy groups, and other entities involved in the process. The exhibition takes the visitor through the course of a day - 7 a.m. through 2 a.m. - and links routine activities with information documenting their collective impact on the environment, while also offering alternatives for making these actions less harmful to our world and highlighting innovations that will lead to greater sustainability by 2030.   Rowe's collection of smaller-scaled furniture has been a hit since it was introduced at the High Point Furniture Market in October 2003.  Rowe has been manufacturing furniture in the United States since 1946 and is also a Founding Member of the Sustainable Furnishings Council. Growing and Greening New York: PlaNYC and the Future of the City is generously funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.  Additional support comes from Con Edison, James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Allison Whipple Rockefeller, the Brenner Family Foundation, Surdna Foundation, The Durst Organization, Nixon Peabody LLP, Tishman Speyer, Martin J. McLaughlin, Hamilton F. Kean, Metro Fuel Oil Corporation, Josie Merck and Jim Stevenson, Mark M. Iger, Tap Into the City, and Richard W. von Bargen, Jr. The exhibition co-chairs, James Dinan, Hamilton Kean, Martin McLaughlin, and Allison Whipple Rockefeller, provided invaluable leadership. The exhibition is organized by Guest Curator Maura Lout, a longtime public policy expert and a former Charles H. Revson Fellow at Columbia University. The exhibition is designed by Pure + Applied. The Museum of the City of New York celebrates and interprets the city, educating the public about its distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation. Founded in 1923 as a private, non-profit corporation, the Museum connects the past, present, and future of New York City. It serves the people of New York and visitors from around the world through exhibitions, school and public programs, publications, and collections. The Museum's exhibitions and public programs on infrastructure, architecture, and other aspects of urban development—Robert Moses and the Modern City:  Remaking the Metropolis, among others—have garnered praise from the press and public alike. For more information please visit the Museum's website at www.mcny.org.