Earth Stool Backrest | Coffee Waste Light | 69 cm | by Eva Harlou
Earth Stool is a circular bar stool designed by Danish architect Eva Harlou. Earth Stool is the result of a new innovative waste-to-value technique that enables Mater to reuse companies’ industrial waste, e.g. plastic waste and other fibre-based materials.
The seats are made from recycled plastic waste and coffee shell waste from BKI coffee. The technique is developed in collaboration with Danish Technological Institute with support from the University of Copenhagen. The waste materials are mixed in a unique compound suitable for press moulding – a method designed to reuse companies’ resources more efficiently. Earth Stool represents classic Scandinavian design with steel frames that make the bar stool elegant and timeless.
The new ground-breaking production technique allows Mater to reuse waste materials and turn it into useful and unique design solutions. Created to support a circular design thinking and the UN SDGs: “Responsible Consumption and Production” (SDGs 12), “Climate Action” (SDGs 13) and “Partnership for the Goals” (SDGs 17).
Sustainability ⌵
One Earth Stool Backrest contains 1590g waste materials
Cutting-edge technology allows Mater to make furniture from waste materials in their patented Matek® material by combining fibre with a binder. The Matek® is made by mixing e-waste with either coffee waste from Danish coffee producer BKI Kaffe or wood waste.
E-waste is a growing environmental concern across the globe due to the world’s use and throwaway
culture. Only 17.4% of total global e-waste is known to have been collected and properly recycled. This figure has dropped over the last five years as a percentage of total waste generated.
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Details ⌵
Material
Coffee shell waste and post-consumer e-waste
Finish
Frame: Gun Metal powder coated
Dimensions
W: 37 cm D: 27 cm SH: 69 cm H: 99 cm /
W: 14.5” D: 10.6” SH: 27.2”
or
W: 37 cm D: 27 cm SH: 74 cm H: 104 cm /
W: 14.5” D: 10.6” SH: 29.1”
Design
Eva Harlou | DK
Origin
Europe
Item no
06067 & 06068
Professionals ⌵
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