East London hair salon Buller and Rice has opened a new venue with an interior design palette that includes seaweed, algae, cork and mushroom leather.
Buller and Rice Wanstead is a salon that doubles as a lifestyle store, selling products ranging from homeware to wine.
Company founders Anita Rice and Stephen Buller designed the interior themselves, filling it with bespoke creations from designers and makers including Natural Material Studio's Bonnie Hvillum and Copenhagen-based Jonas Edvard.
Buller and Rice Wanstead is a hair salon and lifestyle store
Rice told Dezeen their ambition was to use as many plant-based materials as possible.
"We wanted to deep dive into what could happen with plant matter," she explained.
The collaboration with Hvillum ? who won the inaugural Bentley Lighthouse Award at Dezeen Awards 2023 ? resulted in latex-like curtains made from a yellow algae-based material. The yellow-toned interior includes paper and seaweed lamps by Jonas Edvard
Edvard's contribution is a series of yellow pendant lamps made from recycled paper and seaweed, similar to those he previously made for Copenhagen burger joint, POPL.
Rice said she spotted them by chance while enjoying a burger there. "When it turned out they were made from seaweed, I knew they were perfect," she explained.
Latex-like curtains by Natural Material Studio are made from algae
Other plant-based details include a cork wall and seat pads made from algae-based foam, while cushions made...