Styroshell Stools + Cooking Area Tools by Andreu Carulla for Potato Head
As interior decoration products go, oyster shells, styrofoam, and HDPE plastic bottle caps make unusual bedfellows. However when integrated, they end up being a flexible, malleable product that can take lots of shapes. Called Styroshell, it’s a development of Desa Potato Head’s Waste Laboratory, the zero-waste R&D lab at the heart of Bali’s OMA- and Andra Matin– created imaginative town and hotels. A 2022 partnership with Catalan commercial designer Andreu Carulla led to Styroshell-wrapped kitchen area tools, in addition to eccentric stools with legs wound in the product and terrazzo-like seats made from pushed offcuts and unused particles of post– CNC cut plastic. The totally– and two times as– upcycled waste composite collection is up for Rossana Orlandi’s 2023 Ro Plastic Reward.
Seaqual Collection by Valdese Weavers, Available at Kravet
It ends up there’s an interiors utilize for the more than 600 lots of waste that Seaqual Effort has actually pulled from the world’s oceans to date: efficiency material, made from that extremely recovered marine plastic. This spring, Kravet is partnering with Valdese Weavers, which has actually been making material from recycled plastic water bottles for 20 years, to solely provide these products to the property market. Practically unbreakable, these extremely cleanable materials in oceanic tones, geometrics, and chenille are resilient, fade resistant, and ward off liquids– making them best for upholstery in household houses.
