A pop-up dining room at Dutch Design Week features the latest products from Social Label, an ethical design brand that creates work opportunities for makers with disabilities.
Aiming to challenge perceptions around disability, Social Label offers products designed by established names such as Piet Hein Eek and Roderick Vos, and manufactured by makers "with a distance to the labour market".
Social Label presented three new products in Too Big to Fix
The brand is marking its 10th anniversary with Too Big to Fix, an exhibition at The Social Hub in Eindhoven. The show features a range of Social Label products in a colourful scenography that looks like a dining room.
It includes the brand's latest offerings ? a woven textile designed by co-founder Petra Janssen, a collection of wooden stools from Dutch designer Ineke Hans, and a book stand from design duo Kranen/Gille. The show was set up to look like a dining room
Janssen, who is also part of design duo Studio Boot, founded Social Label in 2014 with Simone Kramer of communications agency C-mone.
The pair describe Social Label's approach as "positive activism" at "the intersection of design, society and economy".
Ineke Hans designed Trap, a collection of wooden stools
"Social Label is working to build a growing inclusive movement for an economy in which no one is left behind," they said.
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