British designer Bethan Gray has teamed up with natural surface specialist Nature Squared to create a collection of iridescent furniture clad in leftover materials from the seafood and farming industries.
On show at Spazio Rossana Orlandi during this year's Milan design week, the Exploring Eden furniture collection comprises a shelving unit, lounge chairs, stools and tables made from by-products such as feathers and shells that would otherwise be thrown away.

Gray took advantage of the pearlescent and iridescent qualities of capiz, pearl, scallop and pen shells to give each of the furniture pieces a unique pattern and colour.
Nature Squared, which has an office in the same west London building as Gray, buys the shells directly from workers in Filipino fishing communities, who collect the seafood, tin it and would then otherwise throw the shells away. "Bethan's design practice has always been around natural materials, graphic pattern and colour," said Owen Goldser, a designer at Gray's studio.
The two studios met at a shared sink in their building, Goldser said. "As the conversation moved along we realised there was an incredible amount of joint thinking."

Nature Squared employs 250 craftspeople in the Philippines, who turn the raw shells into luxury surface materials that are usually used for the interiors of super yachts and private jets.
"Creating objects of outstanding beauty and quality is absolutely at the core of ensuring that the materials ...