Nurseryworks, the Los Angeles-based furnishings firm founded by Traci Fleming and Kaye Popofsky Kramer, celebrates the younger generation and their design-savvy parents with modern furniture, bedding, and accessories. Fleming and Popofsky Kramer launched their company to provide clean, simple, and modern furnishings for creating the ideal first environment, a vision that reinforced the nursery's relationship to the rest of the home decor.

Nurseryworks mission is to provide clean, simple, handcrafted contemporary furnishings made with environmentally friendly materials and manufacturing processes. Here are some of the reasons why Nurseryworks products are a green, safe, and stylish choice.

• Nurseryworks uses renewable materials. Paulownia wood is a key material. It is a fast-growing, richly grained, light weight and fire- and decay-resistant hardwood species that takes stain beautifully, and that won't warp, split, or crack. Thanks to its deep root network and its unusual physiology, it can help reclaim ecologically stressed land relatively quickly by upgrading the organic content of degraded soils.
• Nurseryworks products are safe. They are tested to governmental standards on a quarterly basis and are certified by the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association. In addition, the products are air-chamber tested to examine and eliminate toxic materials. The testing methods are intense and measure materials down to parts per billion. The first concern is that products are not emitting dangerous toxins.
• When construction requirements (for the Nurseryworks signature carvings and unique crib slat designs) call for medium density fiberboard (MDF), Nurseryworks uses Grade E0, the safest grade available.+ Nurseryworks uses low-VOC finishes, lacquers, and glues and formaldehyde-free dyes.