Design duo Eneris Collective has collaborated with Barcelona-based biomaterials company NaifactoryLAB to produce a playful stool for children made from waste olive pits.
The Nontalo stool is constructed from six modules ? three P-shaped pieces that can be combined and positioned in different ways and three straight rods that hold them together, forming a variety of shapes from a three-legged stool to a bench seat and many alternatives in between.
The Nontalo kids' stool can be assembled in various ways
All of the modules are made entirely of Reolivar, a smooth cork-like material that NaifactoryLAB created by mixing olive pits with bio-based binders and other natural ingredients.
Spanish designers Irene Segarra and Irene Martínez, who came together under the name Eneris Collective for this project, describe Nontalo as a seating design "where play, spontaneity and sustainability are in harmony". The stool is made of Reolivar, a biomaterial made from olive pits
The duo created the stool after NaifactoryLAB invited them to experiment with Reolivar and develop new applications for the biocomposite.
"For four months, we worked with this new material," Martínez told Dezeen. "We got to know the possibilities it has, the pros and cons, and what its limits are."
"The idea was to generate a structure that doesn't have the obvious shape of a stool with a seat and legs, but maintains the same function," she continued.
Three rods hold the stool t...