French designer Philippe Starck has created a collection of furniture for Cassina that have been upholstered in Apple Ten Lork, a vegan fabric.
A total of 16 pieces designed by Starck for Cassina, including the Volage EX-S sofa, redesigned with a thinner arm rest, the Privè collection and the Caprice and Passion chairs, have been covered with Apple Ten Lork.
The Italian furniture brand embarked on the "experimental process" from a desire to research alternative materials.

"Cassina's DNA has always been strongly identified by its drive for research and development," said the brand. "This is a first move in looking at what alternatives are available."
Each if the pieces is covered with Apple Ten Lork, a vegan alternative to leather, made from apple cores and skins, a biological industrial waste product. It is one of a number of apple skin materials manufactured by Italian company Frumat and comes in white, orange and black colourways.

"The idea was to transform biological industrial residuals into a new raw material and to develop with them innovative materials with highly sustainable, bio-based fundamentals," explained Frumat.
"Those residuals, classified as special waste, otherwise got put in landfill or in some cases are burned."

Cassina's Rive Gauche showroom in Paris has been reconfigured to tell three stories about apples, to accompany the furniture covered in the apple-based material.
The first recounts the Adam ...