7 Sustainable Materials and Products Designers Should Know About Right Now
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Styroshell Stools + Kitchen Tools by Andreu Carulla for Potato Head
As interior design materials go, oyster shells, styrofoam, and HDPE plastic bottle caps make strange bedfellows. But when combined, they become a pliable, moldable material that can take many shapes. Dubbed Styroshell, it’s an innovation of Desa Potato Head’s Waste Lab, the zero-waste R&D laboratory at the heart of Bali’s OMA- and Andra Matin–designed creative village and hotels. A 2022 collaboration with Catalan industrial designer Andreu Carulla resulted in Styroshell-wrapped kitchen tools, as well as eccentric stools with legs wound in the material and terrazzo-like seats made of pressed offcuts and unused particles of post–CNC cut plastic. The fully—and doubly—upcycled waste composite collection is up for Rossana Orlandi’s 2023 Ro Plastic Prize.
Seaqual Collection by Valdese Weavers, Available at Kravet
It turns out there’s an interiors use for the more than 600 tons of waste that Seaqual Initiative has pulled from the world’s oceans to date: performance fabric, made from that very reclaimed marine plastic. This spring, Kravet is partnering with Valdese Weavers, which has been making fabric from recycled plastic water bottles for two decades, to exclusively offer these materials to the residential market. Almost indestructible, these highly cleanable fabrics in oceanic shades, geometrics, and chenille are durable, fade resistant, and repel liquids—making them perfect for upholstery in family homes.
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