Israeli designer Erez Nevi Pana is aiming to push veganism to the design industry, by experimenting with different plants and minerals to create animal-free furniture.
For his Vegan Design exhibition, Nevi Pana wanted to further his PhD research to see if it was possible to make designs without using any kind of material derived from animals.

"It is not aesthetic or about function, it is a placid theory that can turn explosive," stated Nevi Pana about the exhibit.
"It is a trial leading a design discussion through the atrocious reality of animals concocted within our objects, and towards an alternative, ethical orientation of harmony, and of oneness with all animate and inanimate forms."
Curated by Maria Cristina Didero, the exhibition space is divided into five "mountains" that each presents a different experiment with vegan design ? including salt, soil, clay, textile and trash.
When left overnight at room temperature, this so-called dough will double in size. The mixture is then shaped inside a wooden mould to create the desired object.
Nevi Pana then bakes the mixture, causing it to become solid and strong enough to be sanded, sawn and drilled into a chair-like form, which was given the name Soilid.
The exhibition also includes objects made from clay that the designer sourced himself from the Dead Sea, a material made from silkworm cocoons that is taken non-invasively, and a pile of the waste produced by the making of these products.
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