April 21, 2021

Repurposed Materials Stand Out at Virtual Dutch Design Week

At the virtual Dutch Design Week, we spied unique furnishings made from repurposed materials.

Photography courtesy of Dutch Design Week.

Company: CooLoo

Product: Emotion

Standout: Foam modular seating treated with a waterproof base layer is topped by a coating of ground-down post-consumer wine corks or leather from local shoe-industry waste, with denim, linoleum, peach stones, and
coffee-bean shells on the list of future recycled contenders. 

Photography courtesy of Dutch Design Week.

Company: Teun Zwets

Product: Pulp

Standout: The Design Academy Eindhoven graduate disrupts the planter world by combining water-soaked sawdust or paper pulp with pigment and glue, then applying the mixture to street-found vessels or ones crafted from scrapyard steel. Through Adorno Design.

Photography courtesy of Dutch Design Week.

Company: Banne

Product: Bloom

Standout: This new brand with a mission to make sustainable design work at scale teamed with Peter van de Water for the flower-inspired chair, made mostly from recycled low-density polyethylene, a plastic that can be infinitely melted down and reused and, with an integrated rainwater drain, is suitable for indoors or out. 

Post-consumer waste goes into Emotion by CooLoo. Photography courtesy of Dutch Design Week.
Paper pulp for Teun Zwets’s planter. Photography courtesy of Dutch Design Week.
The recycled plastic of Banne’s Bloom chair is suitable for indoors and out. Photography courtesy of Dutch Design Week.

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