Dezeen promotion: a range of environmentally friendly finishes will be displayed at the Finiture Green exhibition during this year's Milan design week.
Finiture Green, which translates as green finishes, will take place at the Highline Galleria on the rooftop of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan's city centre.
The exhibition, which will focus on sustainable paints and finishes, is being put together under the artistic direction of architectural firm Meregalli Merlo Architetti Associati.
It will showcase a range of plant-based coatings that are created from renewable materials, along with clean chrome plating and other environmentally friendly coatings.
"[The exhibition will] present the product lifecycle of paint, from start to green finish," said the organisers. "To honour nature, the Finiture Green exhibition offers you a piece of green heaven, while enjoying impressive views on the urban environment of Milan, with the Duomo di Milano as a literal and figurative highlight." The Finiture Green exhibition will take place as part of this year's Milan design week
Plant-based paint resin Decovery, created by global science-based company DSM, will be on display as part of the exhibition.
The resin, which binds paint together, is primarily manufactured from plants, seeds and other natural materials ? reducing its carbon footprint.
To create the resin, DSM extracts the sugars, starches and natural oils from trees and agricultural waste through ...