Mask Stool

The Mask Stool is designed by the Danish architect Eva Harlou and produced by Mater. The design is the result of a new production method using the low-value waste from Carlsberg’s beer production – the spent grain (Danish ‘mask’) – and turn it into useful design. In collaboration with Danish Technological Institute Mater has developed a new industrial technology to process waste.

After years of research and tests, Mater managed to process the waste material and mix it with industrial plastic waste in a new compound for press moulding. The Mask stool demonstrates a waste-to-value technique and solution for reusing companies’ resources more efficiently, caring for Mother Earth and the next generations. Furthermore, Mask Stool is created to support the UN’s sustainable development goals 12, 13 and 17.

The idea behind having the chair in an environment entirely made of curled-up and crushed plastic products, is to make a reference to the issues of the large plastic waste in nature, with most of the inspiration from images of trash in the sea. My hope is to inspire a shared sense of responsibility to keep the environment clean and healthy. I see this chair as a part of how we get to a less wasteful consumer society, by not always using virgin materials and just throwing away leftovers that do not have an immediate use.

With roots in the Finnish-Swedish countryside, Linnea Myrskog designed the table lamp “Mushroom”. The lamp draws a parallel to the forest and more specifically to mushrooms which are easy to find in the bottom of the woods. The table lamp is made out of reused wood from a Finnish shipyard, where the pieces of thin wood, is a waste product. The thin slices of wood make it possible to make the curvy and smooth shapes contra the solid base of the lamp. Wood as a material has many functions and Linnea took this opportunity to create her table lamp drawing on inspiration from her countryside memories.