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CAFOD, a leading development charity helping the poor in more than 40 countries worldwide, has selected Pli’s range of eco-friendly furniture for their new London headquarters. CAFOD (the Catholic Agency For Overseas Development) moved in May 2010 from its long-standing HQ in Stockwell to a prestigious new building on Westminster Bridge Road in central London. The ‘Excellent’ BREEAM-rated new headquarters was designed by Black Architecture, a sustainable urban architects practice based close by in Waterloo.

CAFOD’s facilities manager Quentin Padgett said,

“Our staff and volunteers love the tables and chairs supplied by Pli. They fit well in our naturally ventilated and low energy office building. The use of recycled and recyclable material fits well with our aim to reduce our impact on the environment. The building has been designed to reduce running costs and to have a robust quality, and the furniture supplied by Pli reflects this.”

Whitechapel bamboo tables and Reee recycled chairs at CAFOD

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West Dulwich-based design studio Pli has started supplying its new range of bamboo and steel occasional tables to London’s iconic department store Liberty. The Whitechapel collection of coffee tables and side tables was inspired by the Utility Furniture Scheme which defined British furniture design of the 1940s and ’50s. Pli has combined sustainable raw materials with cutting-edge UK manufacturing to offer a range of Utility furniture for our times.

Whitechapel occasional tables at Liberty

The tables offer rounded corners and hidden joints to create a quietly elegant design that is also strong, sturdy and, above all, useful. The solid bamboo panels are naturally stain resistant and very hard wearing. The laser-cut pressed steel legs are powder-coated in either cream or black-olive colour-ways.

The Whitechapel tables can be bought at Liberty on Great Marlborough Street in London’s West End from June 2010.

Pli launched a new collection of bamboo dining tables, for eco-friendly British homes, at Grand Designs Live in May 2010. The dining tables are an addition to the ground-breaking range of bamboo occasional tables that Pli displayed at 100% Design 2009. Pli is a London-based design and manufacturing company which specialises in making sustainable furniture in the UK.

The Whitechapel dining tables combine super-strong solid bamboo panels with laser-cut steel legs and supporting bamboo beams. Pli’s Director, Christopher Pett, explains, “The principle of this design is to use bamboo for its unique properties, not simply as a replacement for wood. As well as being a fast-growing, natural material, bamboo also has strength and hardness that most varieties of timber can’t match. It’s naturally stain resistant and it has a beautiful, distinctive grain. These features make bamboo a perfect material to use in contemporary homes for casual kitchen and dining tables.”

4-seater kitchen table

Pli’s design manager, Alex Whitney, adds, “We wanted to create a range of furniture that is effortlessly sustainable, from the sourcing of the raw materials to the local manufacturing and the ease of disassembly for regular refurbishing. All the parts can be replaced or refurbished with very little effort. We use a common leg across the whole series so our customers can buy a bigger table top if they need one, without needing to replace the steel legs. They can even have the leg colour changed regularly if that’s what they want.”

Pli at Grand Designs Live 2010

The Whitechapel dining table range starts with a 4-seater table, 90 x 90 cm square, for kitchens, lounge dining and restaurants. The ’slim’ dining table, 160 cm x 80 cm, seats 6 and is aimed at diners in houses and flats where space is at a premium. The full-size dining table seats 8 comfortably, with a 201 x 90 cm top. Pli has produced a custom 10-seater table with a 240 x 90 cm top in response to a customer request at Grand Designs Live, and this has now entered the range as the largest dining table that Pli can make from a single bamboo panel.

Custom 10-seater dining table

In three pieces and at an impressive 3.7 metre length, the 12-seater Whitechapel boardroom table is the largest table that Pli produces. It’s designed for contemporary, eco-friendly offices and features a very large cable-management tray in the centre. the boardroom table is designed to come apart to form two separate desks.

Whitechapel boardroom table

The Whitechapel dining table range can come packaged with Reee chairs, made from 100% recycled computer games consoles. Pli can even match the leg colours of the tables and chairs to meet our customers’ needs. The Reee chairs are comfortable, easy to keep clean and refurbish and they stack for space-saving storage.

Bamboo dining table top

The Whitechapel dining tables are available in a variety of laminated solid bamboo panel configurations. All the dining tables are supplied with at least 3 layers of bamboo forming the top panel, to make it stable and strong for the lifetime of the product. Customers can select different colours and grains to match their interior, with the ‘caramel’ colour proving by far the most popular so far.

Laser-cut steel legs support the solid bamboo frame

The Whitechapel dining tables are available for contract customers directly from Pli and domestic customers can see the tables at Places and Spaces in Clapham or by appointment at Pli’s workshop. Pli will hold a warehouse sale of the prototype Whitechapel tables we have produced in the lead-up to the launch of our new range. The sale will run throughout the last 2 weeks in June, from 21 June to 2 July.

London-based eco-friendly furniture maker Pli Design Ltd will launch its 2009-2010 furniture range at the 100% Design Exhibition.

The exhibition runs from 24 to 27 September at Earl’s Court in London.

Pli is showing the Mark 2 design of the Reee chair, with a 14% carbon footprint reduction and a stronger frame that securely stacks 10 chairs high. The Mark 1 Reee chair launched at Sony PlayStation’s London HQ in September 2008 and can already be seen in use at many new eco-friendly buildings around the country.

The Reee chair is made out of 100% recycled plastic from games consoles, wrapped around a tubular steel frame. The Reee chair is an example of home-grown sustainable design: developed and manufactured in the UK from locally sourced recycled materials.

The Reee chair will also feature in the Geffrye Museum’s “Eco Home” exhibition from October 2009 to February 2010. The Geffrye Museum in London explores the home in Britain from 1600 to the present day.

The Wrap and Whitechapel table series exemplify a different approach to sustainable design. In place of high-quality recycled plastic, Pli has chosen natural raw materials like FSC certified Ash timber and bamboo combined with pressed steel. The result is a range of sleek, strong tables that can be cared for and treasured for years.

Taken together, this range represents Pli’s uncompromisingly eco-friendly product development philosophy matched with their commitment to affordable, appealing designs. View the full collection at stand H34, 100% Design 2009.

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To celebrate the start of 2009 we have released the Wrap table. The deceptively simple design, by Simon Andrews of Two.three.four, is made from sheet steel and FSC certified oriented strand board with solid bamboo detailing. A lot of the development time was spent reducing the complexity of the top panel and clever use of materials. As a result Wrap’s clean lines mask a versatile design that allows for different sustainable materials in the core and regular refurbishment.

The top and legs are available to purchase separately and the Wrap top has been designed to accept other bases.

We have released our online ‘Winter 2008′ catalogue. It contains our full range of products as well as features and information about Pli Design Ltd. Click on the picture to download.

What: Product launch of chair made from recycled computer games consoles; first to use 100% recycled plastic from a single source
When: Wednesday 10th September 2008, 6.30 pm to 9 pm
Where: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, 10 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7LP
Contact: To attend contact Christopher Pett, Pli Design Ltd, telephone 020 8670 6857, email office@plidesign.co.uk; website www.plidesign.co.uk

British-made chair, using 100% recycled PlayStation®2 consoles, to be launched in London on 10 September.

London, 1 September 2008, London-based Pli Design Ltd (www.plidesign.co.uk) will be launching its latest eco-friendly product, a chair made from 100% recycled games consoles, on Wednesday 10 September at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s head office in London.
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