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Bio-based materials have unique properties and natural beauty. Innovation is key to developing these new material forms for use across all manner of interior applications. One of the main advantages of biomaterials is their low environmental impact. And as material exploration gathers momentum, we provide a platform.

Ultrafabrics, the leading manufacturer of high-performance fabrics, previews its first product with bio-based ingredients, during 100% Design.

Ultraleather® | Volar Bio.

Bio Iridescent Sequin is a material research and design project that harnesses the potential of bio-technologies to create colourful, shimmering sequins, from wood, that are compostable and made with a waste-free process.

Bio Iridescent Sequin - Elissa Brunato

Kathryn Larsen is an architectural technologist who focused her dissertation on seaweed architecture in Denmark.

Kathryn Larsen Seaweed Thatch.

Johannes Kiniger and Giulia Farencena Casaro are the founders and creative team behind High Society, a sustainable design start-up based in Italy

HIGH SOCIETY Lighting using post-industrial waste.

TOTOMOXTLE A project that goes far beyond simple aesthetics.

TOTOMOXTLE by Fernando Laposse

Ehab Sayed of Biohm on sustainable materials, growing mushrooms that eat plastic and changing the industry

Ehab Sayed of Biohm

Bompas & Parr create world's first vegan hotel suite using only plant-based materials

Vegan Design

Natsai Audrey Chieza of Faber Futures on biodesign, growing microbes and sustainability

Natsai Audrey Chieza of Faber Futures

Nuatan is a new biodegradable natural plastic that can safely be eaten by fish

Nuatan

Future Knowledge explores the clever use of materials to raise awareness of climate change

Future Knowledge