Welcome back to enki’s Eco Edit: November 2024; our monthly round up of sustainable life and style news where we curate a selection of eco-friendly brands, shopping ideas and places to visit.
In enki’s Eco Edit: November 2024, we take a look at an innovative installation at Dubai Design Week 2024, a new collection from Havwoods that works with waste from the woodworking industry, a cabin collaboration between architecture and interior design studio AW² and Coucoo Cabanes, the first Artist Series launch from Articolo Studios and some sustainable cosy offerings for the home.
1. Studio Shoo reimagines waste for its installation at Dubai Design Week 2024
Earlier this month architecture and interior design practice, Studio Shoo, unveiled its installation as part of Dubai Design Week 2024, designed to spur on discussions around the benefits of recycled materials.
“From the Fridge” is a seating area crafted from Polygood®; 100% recycled and recyclable plastic panels by The Good Plastic Company. Each of the panels are made entirely from discarded refrigerator plastics, and transformed into a playful lounge area to emphasise the potential of using recycled materials within projects.
Another contributor to the instalment was contemporary textile producer Kvadrat, offering their recycled polyester upholstery fabric for the seating, made from plastic waste once bound for the oceans.
2. Havwoods takes a modern twist with TreeAzzo
With sustainability embedded through to its core, the TreeAzzo collection is crafted with a mixture of eco-friendly resin and wood chip wastage from the wood working industry.
Highly customisable to inject a little or a lot of speckled detailing into a space, TreeAzzo is available with either a fibre cement or plywood backing for use on floors, walls, furniture, worktops or splashbacks. Designed using walnut, ash, oak and pine woods, with a variety of resin colours that can be personalised using any floor resin RAL colour.
3. AW² delivers four new cabins to a wilderness hotel in France
Designed to coexist with the 25 cabins already in situ at Coucoo Cabanes, a wilderness hotel in the village of Chasséy-lés-Montbozon in Franché Comte, France, these four new additions are retreats where guests can experience the tranquil blend of indoor and outdoor living.
Encased by not only a staircase spiralling up the exterior, but also the lush greenery that surrounds, each cabin boasts three levels that reap the benefits the landscape. Raised on stilts, the first level opens up onto green views through a terrace that provides shelter. The second level houses the bedroom with open bay windows, and on the third level a Nordic bath awaits. An idyllic place to unwind, Coucoo Cabanes invites guests to relish in the natural environment.
As the cabins peek through the trees, they also pay their respects to the neighbouring biodiversity. Constructed by MCF Bois, a timber framing workshop located only 15 minutes away from the site. And each cabin uses Douglas fir wood from felled trees no more than 30km away. Taking a prefabricated approach, construction times were reduced to four days per cabin, while minimising the impact on the site.
4. Articolo Studios launches their first Artist Series; Barnacles
Australian artisanal lighting experts, Articolo Studios, launches the first in its Artist Series with the Barnacle wall sconce, a delicate curation of hand-finished metal forms and pressed pigmented barnacles, designed in collaboration with Melbourne based artist, Emma Davies.
Drawn to Emma’s transformation of everyday materials into barnacle-like clusters, Articolo Studios’ founder Nicci Kavals “conceptualised the Barnacle wall sconces as sculptural expressions of light.” The barnacle forms that congregate around the light fittings are crafted by heating reclaimed bird netting and bailing twine into a malleable state, with the artist pressing a smooth rock into its surface to form a rounded fragment.
“Each intricate piece is imprinted with the unique patterns of my touch, reinforcing the idea that art is a living, evolving dialogue between creator and creation,” says Emma.
5. Consciously cosy with de Le Cuona
Unveiling its AW collection, Life, de Le Cuona blurs the boundary between interiors and adventure. “Combining the comforts of home with the adventurous spirit of the traveller,” the collection encompasses pieces that provide cosiness wherever you are, from scarves and ponchos to cushions, blankets and throws.
Hand crafted from luxurious natural fibres including flax, cashmere, wild silk, and its signature linen by artisans from all over the world, the understated but timeless textiles adopt nature’s colour palette. Mossy greens meet charcoal tones, and rusty hues pair with delicate creams, effortlessly blending into a curated collection of soft furnishings.
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