This all starts with a container full with waste in the southern part of Amsterdam. Which contained so much high-quality waste. I couldn’t imagine people throwing this away, especially knowing the scarcity of materials these days.The frustration of that experience has led to the creation of products from waste. Giving materials that can exist for life time a new life. In a stylistic design that is made to last. Pure products, with a unique story, hand-made in small numbers, here in the Netherlands by one person. Urban mining and designing from waste is not a new phenomenon. What makes a product of ours special is our quest to make a perfect product, that can be used and enjoyed.
We work towards a fresh design, a new story, a one of a kind product, finished to the highest standard. We work together and create together.
Released on (February 7, 2023 Amsterdam)
OUR MISSION
Remove the word waste from the dictionary. There is no such thing as waste, that’s a mind set. Let’s clean up the earth in a creative way and to consider waste as a raw (construction) product. My mission, to make people realize what they are wasting and what we can actually create from this.
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Building sides are a source of inspiration for me, where I often find the most beautiful future objects.
OUR NEXT STEP IN WASTE PROCESSING
In our world we have so far worked a lot with house, garden and construction waste. Our next step is not only to take this to the next level, but also to process a new stream of waste in our products.
Industrial waste
For industrial waste, the journey starts with a news article from the NRC (What are the blades of old windmills worth? NRC 30 Oct 2020) about how people use sustainability as a money machine. And in that process creates a lot of waste. The realization was intense that with the excuse of sustainability, more and more waste is created and in this case perhaps the term, waste is the right one. Because once created there is no way back, no reuse plan, no way of new life and we bury these raw materials en masse in the desert.
That’s why I’m going to work with these materials, to reuse them and to create attention for the way we produce.