Products fair: design brand Mater has launched Mask Stool, made using the spent grain from brewery Carlsberg's beer production, at Danish design festival 3 Days of Design.
The stool, which was featured as part of the brand's Circular Design Exhibition at the hotel Villa Copenhagen in the Danish capital, was designed by Danish architect Eva Karlou.
The Mask Stool is adjustable in height
The exhibition also included a new version of the Earth Stool, which is made from the discarded plastic of insulin pens.
Mask Stool is made using a sustainable design technology Mater developed together with the Danish Technological Institute and the University of Copenhagen, which mixes fibre-based materials with plastic waste.
Spent grain leftover from Carlsberg's beer production process, called mask in Danish, is used to create the stool. The wet fibre-based mass is dried and then combined with a granulate of plastic waste to create a mixture that can be moulded into furniture. The stool was created by Mater and Eva Karlou's Earth Studio
Karlou and Mater work together under the Earth Studio moniker. The partnership is located next to Mater Earth Gallery in Copenhagen and works on architecture and interior concepts, furniture design and development of new sustainable materials.
Earth Studio has previously launched the Earth Stool, which is partly made from recycled plastic packaging waste. At 3 Days of Design, Mater showed a new version of this stool.
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