Italian design studio High Society is putting waste from the local beer and coffee industry to good use, by turning it into a range of tubular lights and using profits to fund dependency prevention.
The Senilia collection was first revealed as part of the Warsaw Home fair last week. Each piece features the same pipe-like shape, bent and twisted into five variations for each of the two colour-ways.

The shades are derived from the natural pigmentation of the different forms of waste, which High Society collects directly from the source.
The discarded coffee bean peels, also called silver skins, are already dry and can immediately be shredded, while the leftover hops and barley from breweries need to be dehydrated before they can be processed into a powder.
"The different powders are mixed with a compostable binder and put through an extruder, which ejects it under high-pressure through a pipe," co-founder Johannes Kiniger told Dezeen.
"This turns the material into a straight, tubular structure that's then handcrafted into irregular shapes and air-dried for several days."

Although it appears to be soft and flexible, the lamp's body actually solidifies into a hard, unchangeable structure through the drying process.
Senilia's imperfect, organic forms are meant to show the toll that time takes on any living organism and reference the production process itself, which finds value in materials even when they are seemingly past their prime.

The lights are held...