Scandinavia’s largest design truthful, the Stockholm Furnishings Truthful, is underway and it is clear that sustainability is on the forefront of designers’ minds this yr.

The annual truthful is among the most prestigious furnishings exhibitions on the planet, which showcases the newest tendencies and improvements in furnishings design and manufacturing.

This yr’s occasion, which coincides with Stockholm’s Design Week, isn’t just about showcasing new furnishings items but in addition about selling environmentally aware practices within the trade.

This is some extremely revolutionary examples from this yr’s present of how designers are working to create a extra sustainable future for all.

Waste to surprise

Balmain high fashion gown derived from Evian bottles AP Picture

One of many standout corporations on the truthful goals to point out how waste may be reused creatively.

Known as “Closing the Loop” the exhibit shows among the tasks it has accomplished with the style trade: for instance, outdated denims recycled to turn out to be hangers for a similar model.

The exhibition was created by the Solaris Neighborhood, a circular-chain platform initiated by the United Nations ESCAP (Financial and Social Fee for Asia and the Pacific) in 2019.

Initially, the platform helped designers reuse the plastic that’s dumped into the ocean to create furnishings or style clothes.

Now, the platform is making an attempt to recycle waste earlier than it leads to the ocean, collaborating with manufacturers immediately to seek out options to reuse their waste.

A large shot of the ‘Closed the Loop’ exhibit at Stockholm’s Furnishings Truthful AP Picture

For instance, in 2022, in collaboration with Balmain, the platform supplied a round resolution for reworking Evian water bottles right into a style assortment:

“We discovered this very cool collaboration to recycle the waste kind Evian bottles, and to supply merchandise beneath the Balmain model. And naturally it’s a luxurious model, we have now to take care of the prime quality, the excessive requirements, in order that’s the cool half,” explains Zehao Liu, the founding father of Solaris Neighborhood.

The world’s most environmentally pleasant furnishings manufacturing facility

Aerial shot of ‘The Plus’ – The world’s most environmentally pleasant furnishings manufacturing facility Vestre

The winner of the truthful’s Sustainability Award of the 12 months 2023 is Vestre, for his or her sustainable furnishings manufacturing facility “The Plus”.

In June 2022, Vestre opened The Plus Color and Wooden Manufacturing facility in Magnor, Norway.

The manufacturing facility, which has been designed by the main architect agency Bjarke Ingels Group, is an environmentally pleasant furnishings manufacturing facility. The beautiful constructing has been recreated in Lego for the truthful.

We wished to create a web site the place the Greta Thunberg era meets trade folks – that it is doable to attach each of them Marianne Preus Jacobsen

The constructing ensures good working situations, facilitates electrified heavy transport, it has 900 photo voltaic panels on the roof, and reuses a lot of the water used within the manufacturing.

“Now we have constructed a constructing for the subsequent hundred years, not for the subsequent couple of a long time, however we are literally investing sooner or later. And we consider that trade and sustainable manufacturing belongs collectively and we additionally wished to create a web site the place the Greta Thunberg era meets trade folks, that it’s doable to attach each of them,” says Marianne Preus Jacobsen, Gross sales and Undertaking Supervisor at Vestre.

3D printed furnishings produced from fish nets and wooden fibre

As a part of Stockholm’s Design Week, which runs from 6-12 February 2023, environmental design firm, Fascinating Occasions Gang, have opened up their studio to the general public to showcase their “circularity designs”.

With their “Kelp assortment,” the studio has created round furnishings, which is 3D printed in bio composite from recycled fishing nets and wooden fibre.

In accordance with the studio, the ensuing inexperienced objects may be floor all the way down to create new bio-materials that may be reused time and again, to create solely new objects inside a closed design loop.

However for Sean Barrett, Head of Innovation at Fascinating Occasions Gang studio, doing higher just isn’t as simple because it sounds: “The extra you attempt to resolve a particular problem, or an issue, round a fabric or round a waste stream, it opens up a brand new door of challenges that you just didn’t beforehand have to contemplate. There’s at all times one thing that you just assume improves the system after which the extra features of the system that you just attempt to take duty for, the extra you perceive that there are challenges that usually can’t be solved.”

Certainly, when producing these chairs, he realized that the present system to recycle these objects made partly out of fishing nets and partly out of wooden didn’t exist.

In Sweden, eliminating one in every of these chairs would imply burning it and utilizing vitality.

Now, Barrett is engaged on utilizing seaweed to exchange any unrecyclable supplies.

Fascinating Occasions Gang studio additionally makes use of superior expertise to acquire sustainable designs reminiscent of this desk Aibio, which is the results of a collaborScandinavia’s largest design truthful, the Stockholm Furnishings Truthful, is underway and it is clear that sustainability is on the forefront of designers’ minds this yr.

The annual truthful is among the most prestigious furnishings exhibitions on the planet, which showcases the newest tendencies and improvements in furnishings design and manufacturing.

This yr’s occasion, which coincides with Stockholm’s Design Week, isn’t just about showcasing new furnishings items but in addition about selling environmentally aware practices within the trade.

This is some extremely revolutionary examples from this yr’s present of how designers are working to create a extra sustainable future for all.

Waste to surprise

Balmain high fashion gown derived from Evian bottles AP Picture

One of many standout corporations on the truthful goals to point out how waste may be reused creatively.

Known as “Closing the Loop” the exhibit shows among the tasks it has accomplished with the style trade: for instance, outdated denims recycled to turn out to be hangers for a similar model.

The exhibition was created by the Solaris Neighborhood, a circular-chain platform initiated by the United Nations ESCAP (Financial and Social Fee for Asia and the Pacific) in 2019.

Initially, the platform helped designers reuse the plastic that’s dumped into the ocean to create furnishings or style clothes.

Now, the platform is making an attempt to recycle waste earlier than it leads to the ocean, collaborating with manufacturers immediately to seek out options to reuse their waste.

A large shot of the ‘Closed the Loop’ exhibit at Stockholm’s Furnishings Truthful AP Picture

For instance, in 2022, in collaboration with Balmain, the platform supplied a round resolution for reworking Evian water bottles right into a style assortment:

“We discovered this very cool collaboration to recycle the waste kind Evian bottles, and to supply merchandise beneath the Balmain model. And naturally it’s a luxurious model, we have now to take care of the prime quality, the excessive requirements, in order that’s the cool half,” explains Zehao Liu, the founding father of Solaris Neighborhood.

The world’s most environmentally pleasant furnishings manufacturing facility

Aerial shot of ‘The Plus’ – The world’s most environmentally pleasant furnishings manufacturing facility Vestre

The winner of the truthful’s Sustainability Award of the 12 months 2023 is Vestre, for his or her sustainable furnishings manufacturing facility “The Plus”.

In June 2022, Vestre opened The Plus Color and Wooden Manufacturing facility in Magnor, Norway.

The manufacturing facility, which has been designed by the main architect agency Bjarke Ingels Group, is an environmentally pleasant furnishings manufacturing facility. The beautiful constructing has been recreated in Lego for the truthful.

We wished to create a web site the place the Greta Thunberg era meets trade folks – that it is doable to attach each of them Marianne Preus Jacobsen

The constructing ensures good working situations, facilitates electrified heavy transport, it has 900 photo voltaic panels on the roof, and reuses a lot of the water used within the manufacturing.

“Now we have constructed a constructing for the subsequent hundred years, not for the subsequent couple of a long time, however we are literally investing sooner or later. And we consider that trade and sustainable manufacturing belongs collectively and we additionally wished to create a web site the place the Greta Thunberg era meets trade folks, that it’s doable to attach each of them,” says Marianne Preus Jacobsen, Gross sales and Undertaking Supervisor at Vestre.

3D printed furnishings produced from fish nets and wooden fibre

As a part of Stockholm’s Design Week, which runs from 6-12 February 2023, environmental design firm, Fascinating Occasions Gang, have opened up their studio to the general public to showcase their “circularity designs”.

With their “Kelp assortment,” the studio has created round furnishings, which is 3D printed in bio composite from recycled fishing nets and wooden fibre.

In accordance with the studio, the ensuing inexperienced objects may be floor all the way down to create new bio-materials that may be reused time and again, to create solely new objects inside a closed design loop.

However for Sean Barrett, Head of Innovation at Fascinating Occasions Gang studio, doing higher just isn’t as simple because it sounds: “The extra you attempt to resolve a particular problem, or an issue, round a fabric or round a waste stream, it opens up a brand new door of challenges that you just didn’t beforehand have to contemplate. There’s at all times one thing that you just assume improves the system after which the extra features of the system that you just attempt to take duty for, the extra you perceive that there are challenges that usually can’t be solved.”

Certainly, when producing these chairs, he realized that the present system to recycle these objects made partly out of fishing nets and partly out of wooden didn’t exist.

In Sweden, eliminating one in every of these chairs would imply burning it and utilizing vitality.

Now, Barrett is engaged on utilizing seaweed to exchange any unrecyclable supplies.

Fascinating Occasions Gang studio additionally makes use of superior expertise to acquire sustainable designs reminiscent of this desk Aibio, which is the results of a collabor