Vestre is showcasing a collection of urban furniture that encourages biodiversity at this year's Milan design week, set within a leafy installation constructed by Note Design Studio from one of the brand's old fair stands.
Situated in a warehouse in the Tortona district, the display reuses the same hollow bricks, stone chips and polycarbonate panels that previously formed the award-winning booth the duo created for the 2020 Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair.
The installation is formed from a reused Vestre fair stand (top and above)
The materials were stored in Vestre's factory in Sweden for 19 months before being shipped to Milan. Here, they are joined by a meadow and a family of small shrubs and trees transplanted from a local nursery to form a kind of miniature indoor park housing the brand's new Habitats range. Reusing the materials and transporting them to Italy, rather than sourcing them from scratch, helped to prevent not just waste but also a considerable amount of carbon emissions, the company claims.
"Transport accounts for less than five per cent of all emissions from material sourcing," CEO Jan Christian Vestre told Dezeen.
"It would have been so much more energy and CO2 demanding to throw the materials from Stockholm away and manufacture new ones in Italy."
Hollow, uncemented bricks are arranged into a meandering landscape
In total, 90 per cent of materials from the original stand were reused, save for the plywood walls and a number of fun...