Totally Bamboo

Long before inventing the world’s first bamboo cutting board, Tom and Joanne Sullivan specialized in producing beautiful, luxuriously crafted director’s chairs for the film industry. From their studio in North Hollywood, they designed and created custom chairs for—arguably—the most aesthetically discerning clientele on the planet.In their quest for a lighter chair, they began experimenting with bamboo, which they knew to have a higher strength-to-weight ratio than oak. The resulting chair design was not only lighter, but stronger than anything Tom and Joanne had made before. Intrigued by this sustainable, highly renewable material, Tom and Joanne set out to discover what other products could be improved if they put their art and design backgrounds to work to re-imagine them in bamboo. After developing an engineered bamboo harder than maple and ideal as a cutting surface, they introduced the world’s first bamboo cutting board in 1999.