Opt for these 5 regenerative materials, furniture and accessory pieces in your next project

With a growing climate crisis, we should all be making more of a conscious effort to shop more sustainably. Many designers fall into the trap of returning to the comfort and convenience of buying from brands that they are familiar with, without seeking more sustainable alternatives. 

Tapping into the regenerative future trend, this blog post will make you reimagine materials and expose you to new designers that have sustainability at their core. Whether you are wanting a stand out piece to refresh your dining area or are seeking a sexy surface alternative, the pieces below show case that you don’t have to subsidize on style to be more sustainable.

Your dining room just got sexier

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Dutch designer Dirk van der Kooij founded Kooij Studio in 2009 with a focus on making beautiful furniture pieces from waste including discarded CDs and leather sofas. Kooij sees this transformation as an art form in itself. 

Before making any product, they question ‘is this a permanent, worthy application of the resources used?’. This refreshing outlook on creating makes every new piece they create even more special, as it has been designed with intent, quality and purpose. 

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Whether you want a stand out chair for your hallway or a new dining set, the RvR chair and Melting Pot table definitely guarantee a double take.

Plastic in ways you never imagined

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With a long high client list and more recently known for creating beautiful displays for luxury fashion giant Ganni. Smile Plastics are a climate focused brand that emphasize their products are of equal if not higher quality than their unethical counterparts. From kitchen worktops to side tables, Smile Plastics create anything you want in their plastic lab with their bespoke service. They also offer ready to buy panels of varying sizes to suit a multitude of projects. So why not jazz up your white marble worktops?

Egg shells never looked so good

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Shell Homage founder Rania Elkalla makes regenerative materials from egg and nut shells. Creating surfaces that are all beautifully balanced in color and vary in playful compositions, adding a striking statement to any room. Her products range from uniquely shaped wall display storage to side tables.

Rose petals as walls? Yes please

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Nominated for the German sustainability award 2023, Organoid explores the manifold possibilities of raw materials like you’ve never seen before, transforming nature's gifts into beautiful colorful surfaces. With one of their most colorful being ROASNBLIATN - a surface made purely from rose petals, used in their recent window installation for Liberty London. Their surfaces can be used for walls, drawer fronts, flooring and are also available as self adhesive stickers that can be applied to any surface. Let your imagination run with these wild surface solutions. 

Forever flowers

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Everyone loves receiving flowers. They double as the perfect gift and decoration for our homes, bringing us a sense of temporary joy. But what if that feeling could be made permanent and even better yet, sustainable?

Reevein Studios are doing just that with their fake flowers made from leftover materials. Every piece is handmade, giving any interior a bespoke finishing touch.

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