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Sustainable

Sustainable materials create a positive impact on communities and the environment. More and more companies and individuals are designing and developing products that have sustainable properties for use in design and architecture.

Munich Fabric Start – Focus section 'Sustainable Innovations'

Munich Fabric Start

25.03.2020

Jessica den Hartog on reimagining plastic, the importance of colour and collaboration.

Jessica den Hartog

06.12.2019

Conscious Designs strives for a better future with affordable housing made from plastic waste.

Conscious Designs

15.11.2019

Gavin Stanley Keightley's work is inspired by the power of natural erosion; the wind, the rain, the land and the sea.

Gavin Stanley Keightley

12.11.2019

Cob houses – built using a mixture of earth and natural fibre – have existed for centuries.

The CobBauge project.

06.11.2019

@Work by Agua is the fruit of over two years development.

Agua Performance Design Fabric.

28.10.2019

FIBandCO gives a second life to banana plant trunks.

GREEN BLADE®

27.10.2019

Woven Image cleberates 15 years of EchoPanel® with the launch of 8 new colours.

Woven Image - EchoPanel®

03.10.2019

We weave our music, we replay our cassette tapes.

Rehyphen®

28.09.2019

StoneCycling's co-founder Ward Massa on transforming waste, using common sense and future-proofing.

StoneCycling - Transforming waste.

23.08.2019

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

Kathryn Larsen Seaweed Thatch.

12.08.2019

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.

31.07.2019

With its unique appearance, Tarkett DESSO's Orchard is Cradle to Cradle® Silver level certified, and comes with DESSO EcoBase backing as standard.

Orchard collection by Tarkett DESSO

18.07.2019

New Clerkenwell Showroom features recycled PET acoustic panelling by Woven Image

Woven Image’s recycled acoustic panels.

15.07.2019

That’s Caffeine feels and looks like granite stone, it's lightweight, its sustainable and biodegradable.

That’s Caffeine - Sustainable & Biodegradable

08.07.2019

Full Circle: Norway to celebrate community and sustainability at Salone

Full Circle

18.03.2019

Mater launches the Ocean Collection: a 1955 design classic by Jørgen and Nanna Ditzel

Ocean Collection

26.02.2019

Linda Bergroth’s magical Zero Waste Bistro wins the Frame Sustainability Award

Zero Waste Bistro

25.02.2019

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