Now featured at Dutch Design Week.
Now featured at Dutch Design Week.
The Better Place Furniture Return kit includes a biomaterial body bag, liquid mushroom culture, a burial manual, and comes in a biodegradable box. You can easily put your expired furniture in the body bag, inoculate it, and bury it in a better place.
The liquid mushroom culture grows oyster mushrooms inside the body bag, which efficiently decompose the furniture and its toxic materials (varnish, resins, glues, paint, etc.).
The body bag is made of biomaterials that attract mycelium, so the nutrients in the wood and the bag are quickly absorbed by the underground network.
Finally, the box can be left as a burial marker its place.
how it works
how it works
Meet Shiloh.
Shiloh is at the end of its life as a chair.
But let’s go back to the beginning.
This is the forest where Shiloh first lived.
If Shiloh had completed its lifecycle in the forest, its body would have decomposed and nourished the mycorrhizal network.
Instead, Shiloh got logged. It happens.
Shiloh was sold and processed into usable wood.
And eventually, Shiloh was put on the market in a brand-new form.
Shiloh is bought and spends many years in a home, providing support on a daily basis.
But the inevitable happens: Shiloh eventually reaches a state beyond repair.
There is only one place Shiloh can currently go: the landfill. There, the wood decomposes and its lifecycle meets a dead end.
What if instead, we could honor the tree’s final form and ceremoniously return Shiloh back to the forest, where it could complete the end of its lifecycle and create benefits for the environment?
Return your furniture to a better place
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Return your furniture to a better place ⋆