As part of 3 Days of Design, Danish practice Natural Material Studio has created a futuristic fossil-free home interior where all the elements, from the curtains to the sofa, are made from the same bioplastic.
White Utopia is Natural Material Studio's most ambitious installation to date, adapting the studio's Procel bioplastic to form massive functioning furniture pieces across three separate rooms ? a dining room, a lounge and a bedroom with a walk-in wardrobe.
The White Utopia installation includes a lounge (top image) and dining room (above)
The exhibition envisions a future where our homes are made entirely using biomaterials like this, which can be endlessly remade into new products and backyard composted at the end of their life, rather than ending up in landfill. "The installation has for sure been the most challenging to date due to the complexity in scale and the three-dimensionality of the whole 'house'," studio founder Bonnie Hvillum told Dezeen. "You can really start to see how we can live with these new materials."
Every element down to the lampshades is made from Procel bioplastic
Natural Material Studio initially developed Procel as a flexible biotextile, used to form everything from clothes to curtains. But recently, the studio started experimenting with adapting its recipe to create whole load-bearing furniture pieces.
The core ingredient is a specific ? although nondisclosed ? natural protein, which Hvillum says can be derived from eith...