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Types of Wood

Furniture Essentials

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. has established a list of approved woods that we utilize in our furniture. We are very particular about the source of our hardwood, and only use woods

that are plentiful and not endangered or included on the“red list” (soon to become endangered if not carefully monitored).

Generally speaking, wood is often put into one of two categories – hardwood and softwood.

But what exactly makes a given piece of wood qualify as either hard or soft and how did those definitions come about?