BEST IN SHOWS -- FURNITURE; Finally, Bamboo Gets Off the Island (2011/10/25)
   It took about three dozen workers four days to create the sculpture and about two dozen to install it. Thomas A. Madden Jr., managing director for Tishman Speyer Properties, the owners of Rockefeller Center, said that the company wanted to do something bigger, better and more interesting with the orchid show, now in its fifth year at the rink. The bamboo art, he said, is elegant, dynamic and rich in Japanese tradition.Mr. Madden added, It's one of a kind.
   Bamboo furniture can look like tiki lounge décor or have a blocky 70's organic feel. Bart Bettencourt, a Brooklyn furniture designer and cabinetmaker, makes refined pieces in laminated bamboo. ''I use environmentally sustainable materials but make them look elegant by using simple geometry and clean lines,'' he said. The dining chair above ($650, in natural; amber also available) is from his new collection, which includes a table , armoires, dressers and sideboards. The pieces have a linseed oil finish.
   Beauty products have a new ingredient: bamboo, long used in Asia to smooth and moisturize skin. AmorePacific's cleansers and moisturizers contain bamboo sap , while the finely ground bamboo stalk in Paula Dorf's Simple Skin Gentle Bamboo Exfoliator sloughs off dry skin. Té Tao's Bamboo Tea Soothing Shampoo and Conditioner are for dry scalps. Z. Bigatti's Enlighten Skin Tone Provider, with bamboo extract, is billed as able to lighten dark spots and even out skin tone ($189 at Henri Bendel). The efficacy of bamboo is still being investigated, said Steve Hasher, the executive director of research and development at Estée Lauder Idealist Micro-D Deep Thermal Refinisher , said, ''Nothing made my skin look as radiant and clear.''
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