Welcome to enki’s Eco Edit for March 2025. If you’re new to our monthly instalment, here we round up our favourite clippings of sustainable life and style news – covering everything from eco-friendly brands and shopping ideas to must-visit destinations and exhibitions.
For this month’s instalment, we curate our current highlights that shine a light on sustainable material makeup and crafting processes. So sit back, relax and get to scrolling as we reveal a recyclable office chair that’s built for true comfort, a collection of outdoor rugs woven with eco-friendly fibres, a brand new lighting launch to add to your Milan itinerary, zero waste plant pots and concentric wood block flooring.
Read on to delve into enki’s Eco Edit for March 2025…
1. Vitra’s Mynt chair offers a new way of sitting
Vitra’s Mynt office chair (designed by Erwan Bouroullec) is the culmination of decades of iconic chair design. Built to sit within commercial offices, public settings, as well as work from home spaces, Mynt’s functionality and versatile form makes it a solution for modern needs…
At the core of the design is a patented mechanism. Activated by body weight, this device works to tilt you forwards or backwards, with the seat moving independently. “Because it’s unsynchronised, it responds to people’s intuitive ability to explore the chair’s options. They find a way to play with it,” says Erwan Bouroullec.
Mynt is made from up to 80% recyclable materials, and is 99% recyclable at the end of its product life. The seat and backrest are available in wood veneer or recycled polyamide. And the best part… upholstered covers are zip fastened, allowing for easy cleaning or replacing with a fresh shade.
2. Live nomadically with GAN’s outdoor textiles
The Nomad collection, designed by Alejandra Gandía-Blasco Lloret for GAN, a brand specialising in the crafting of high-quality textiles, features a series of outdoor rugs, poufs and cushions offering minimal expression to your outdoor space.
Inspired by the textures and patterns native to India – which were discovered when the design team visited parts of the country on a mission to research how recylced PET fibres would behave on a manual loom – the Nomad collection seeks to conserve this craft. Following a successful creative journey, each versatile piece within Nomad is made with 100% recycled PET and manufactured on a hand loom.
“Alejandra Gandía-Blasco Lloret took inspiration from the minimum of belongings with which nomadic peoples move, with which they manage to create ephemeral spaces capable of providing a sense of home and rest,” says the brand.
3. Studio Truly Truly revolutionise an iconic lighting archetype for Rakumba
In a fusion of heritage, innovation and creativity, Australian designers Studio Truly Truly have collaborated with luxury lighting brand Rakumba to launch Big Glow, “a revolutionary take on the classic glowing sphere lighting archetype.”
Inspired by the contrasts between Australia’s powerful sunlight and the softer glow of European interiors, Big Glow unites a longing for the sun with a comforting, diffused illumination (as well as Studio Truly Truly’s decade-long experience as Australians in Europe!).
Big Glow is also a celebration of the luxurious and enduring qualities of Australian wool. And through intensive research, development and technical expertise from Woolmark, Rakumba has “harnessed a material that combines non-woven wool with plant-derived compostable fibre formulated as bioplastic.”
The collection will make its global debut at Milan Design Week 2025 taking place next month, under the exhibition title The Culture of Light at two locations: The Big Glow Espresso Lounge at Fiera Milano and Valcucine in the Brera Design District. If you’re planning your trip, it’s one you’ll wan’t to add to the itinerary!
4. Get the most out of your growing with Fable’s ceramic planters
While March may be the time to sow your first seeds for that first summer garden harvest, it’s also a great time to repot houseplants so they can reach their full potential over the warmer months.
So, while repotting, why not also refresh your space with one (or a couple) of Fable’s durable ceramic plant pots. Available in three sizes and four neutral colour choices, each pot comes with its own large drip tray to catch overflow and keeping roots healthy, whilst also allowing air to circulate to keep plants happy.
Fable’s ceramic creations are lovingly made at a zero-waste facility where all water, clay shavings and broken ceramics are repurposed.
5. Schotten & Hansen unveil a new wood flooring collection; Graincut Empire
Schotten & Hansen introduce an innovative new concentric block flooring design in celebration of its 40th anniversary and commitment to crafting sustainable wooden surfaces that last a lifetime.
The new collection of flooring, called Graincut Empire, features a unique cut of wood traditionally used in workshops for many years due to its “natural resilience, noise-absorbing qualities and the resourcefulness of using the whole tree when it is sawn away,” the brand tell us.
Taking inspiration from this ancient craft technique (found in the world heritage site of Bamberg, Northern Bavaria), Schotten & Hansen has used its modern engineering technology to design Graincut Empire. Available in a light, medium and dark tone, the collection is crafted from ash wood, sawn horizontally across the trunk where each cut reveals the “precise perfection in nature of a tree’s circular annual rings.”
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