The London Design Festival ran from 18-23 September, the week after Pli launched the Reee chair. We decided to try and show the chair in as many different places, to as many different audiences as we could.

Reee Chair at 100% Design, Earl's Court

The Grass Media Table, made from bamboo and straw with a brand-new steel wire leg design, will be on display at The Greenhaus’s stand in the Tent London exhibition from 18-21 September. Make sure you see stand H25 in the Content zone at Tent on London’s Brick Lane.

Tent has grown into one of the must-see exhibitions during the London Design Festival and The Greenhaus is displaying a selection of contemporary, sustainable furniture designs including new products from our friends Ryan Frank and Naomi Dean. Jane Moseley from The Greenhaus is a fount of knowledge about sustainable product design in the UK so stop by and say hello.

Waste Neutral is a novel waste management philosophy developed by staff at the Eden Project. The philosophy encourages people to balance the weight of waste they throw out with the weight of recycled material in new products. Hence, being waste neutral means that no more waste reaches landfill.

Alongside ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ the Eden Project suggests that we should consider ‘reinvest’ to support products that divert recycled materials from landfill and do their bit to close the loop.

Waste Neutral

The Eden Project awards the Waste Neutral Mark to products which have been made with recycled materials and responsible manufacturing processes. These products helps neutralise the amount of waste that reaches landfill. The Reee Chair does this, saving 2.4kg of waste plastic from landfill, and will be launched with the waste neutral logo embossed onto each rib of the chair.

Pli asks: Can you do your bit to be Waste Neutral?

For more information on the Waste Neutral scheme visit www.edenproject.com/wasteneutral

Pli launched the Reee chair on Wednesday this week. Thanks to everyone who came to help us celebrate. We had a good party and I hear some of our friends carried on into the weee small hours.

But the main thing was for us to share the achievement of bringing an innovative product to market, with all the stakeholders, partners and well-wishers who have been instrumental in the project.

Pli began developing the Reee chair in 2006 with Sprout Design as the designer. Now we have a finished product, already in shops and installed in some homes, meeting rooms and (next week) lecture halls.

Here are some photos of the launch… (click to enlarge)

Christopher launching the chair

If you can’t make Christopher’s “100% Sustainable?” round table discussion to be held at London’s 100% Design exhibition in Earl’s Court 21 September, or you can’t get enough of Pli, you have another opportunity to catch us in the flesh. I will be attending a similar discussion for “100% Sustainable?” on 18 September. The topic to be explored is “What opportunities could a shift towards sustainable design offer individuals and companies within the design profession?” It starts at 3 pm on the 100% Sustainable? stand.

100% Design 2008

See Christopher’s post for registration details and more information about the event

Ecò, Chiswick’s green living store, will show the Reee chair in their exhibition of sustainable seating designs from 13-23 September as part of the London Design Festival. You can find full details of the exhibition in the London Design Festival guide. Get along to 213 Chiswick High Road and try out the Reee chair when you get the chance.

Ecò

Here are the details…
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I will be taking part in the “100% Sustainable?” round table discussion to be held at London’s 100% Design exhibition in Earl’s Court on 21 September.

The discussion will open up to take questions from the floor and it’ll be great to hear some testing questions and illuminating ideas, so come along if you’re available. It starts at 2 pm on the 100% Sustainable? stand.

100% Design 2008

There will be a seminar on each day of the exhibition. Sunday will be the best one. The seminars are free to exhibition visitors (that’s free to trade visitors too, if you register online before 12 September).

Here’s 100% Design’s description of the event…
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