At Sherwin-Williams, we strive to make improvements in our products, processes, and packaging that benefit our customers and the planet. We celebrate other companies that are making “doing your part” into an art, transforming otherwise “unusable” materials into beautiful and inventive products to serve modern spaces.

Meet some of the brands bringing nature’s palettes to life in a new way through recycled, upcycled, and sustainably sourced materials.

Nature Squared

 

Nature Squared is proving that waste can be a luxury material (and “walking on eggshells” isn’t necessarily a bad thing). The globally known ethical design brand gives abundant natural materials—such as seeds, bark, feathers, and eggshells—a glorious afterlife in the form of handmade, eco-friendly tiles, blending time-honored craftsmanship and cutting-edge engineering into a stunning finished product. We’re especially enamored of their latest CArrelé collection, which is just as easy on the eyes as it is on the planet, reducing global methane emissions by using discarded eggshells in its unique formula.

Emeco

 

For a sustainably made collection of stools and chairs, there could be no more fitting moniker than the On & On. For Emeco, classic design meets endlessly inventive recycling processes to produce simple, and simply superb, products. For years, the brand’s product development team has worked tirelessly to improve the resiliency of rPET—recycled waste plastic that would otherwise end up in garbage dumps—to give timeless café chair designs (and perhaps even the entire planet) an even longer lifespan.

Wild Studio

 

At first glance, the sculpted forms of Danish design firm Wild Studio’s purely postmodern stools and tables appear to be no different from any other well-made furnishings of their kind. But if you look closer, then you’ll find that the pieces in the Moon Collection are made entirely of 100% recycled plastic—robust enough to be used indoors and out—with a playful speckling effect achieved from incorporating various household and industrial waste products, such as the recycled household plastics used to give the Wild Moon stool its eclectic rainbow-confetti finish.

Ignorance is Bliss

 

As variable in appearance as they are beautiful, the richly pigmented ceramic tiles created by Ignorance is Bliss are available in a stunning array of 20 colorways. These colors are the results of years of experimentation with the metals and minerals present in the glaze—all cleverly derived from industrial waste and by-products. The company’s unique production methods rely heavily on the touch of human hands, lending subtle differences in color and a bespoke look to the finished tiles.

Tim Walker Studio

Tim Walker Studio has been to explore the boundaries of material and application in 100% handmade design. Walker’s London-based company specializes in mold casting to create standout shaded lamps, beautiful bowls, and other accessories out of recycled construction zone waste and lightweight building mortar, resulting in stoneware-like pieces that are rustic yet refined. His products brilliantly bridge the gap between supplying contemporary style and addressing the utterly of-the-moment need to reduce industrial and commercial waste.

Herman Miller

 

Perhaps one of the most iconic brands in home furnishing design, Herman Miller has proven to be as adaptable and nimble as even the youngest design brands listed here. In September 2021, the brand began making its top-selling office chair, Aeron, with ocean-bound plastic, a term for the mismanaged surplus of plastic waste found in and near our planet’s waterways. The brand behind the iconic Eames lounge is demonstrating that even a single change can make a big impact, with aims to save the ocean from over 150 tons of plastic waste per year and plans to use 50% recycled content in all materials by the year 2030.

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