We’ll be having a launch party for the Reee Chair on September 10, from 6.30 until 9.00 pm in central London. This is our chance to thank the many organisations that have helped us to bring this new product to the market, since we started planning it in 2006, and show the finished product to our customers, press and partners.

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In the last two weeks Pli’s latest product the Reee chair has gone into full scale production. It has taken two years product development to get to this point with the help of many, many people and organisations, from the designers Sprout to the subcontracted parts manufacturers and London Remade who supported the injection mould tooling.

None of this help and advice has gone to waste - the finished product is radically different from our very first conceptions of a 100% post-consumer recycled plastic seat. And yet the original idea remains exactly the same - a 100% post-consumer recycled plastic chair seat and back on a simple tubular frame.

Watch out for announcements regarding retail locations, launch parties and contract deliveries in the coming days and weeks - we have some exciting news to share - but in the meantime we are all just glad to be in production, frame by frame, part by part, diverting recycled material from landfill or down-cycling and using it for a high-quality consumer product instead.

On Friday last week Pli was invited to deliver a 10 minute presentation at the Upcycling Textiles Symposium held Chelsea College of Art & Design. The day was run by TED (Textile Environment Design) and it aimed to encourage the London textile and fashion community to embrace sustainable thinking.

Tim and I attended the first session of the day. First up was a talk form Marie O’Mahony who co-authored Techno Textiles: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design - books 1 and 2 plus many other textile based publications. Her talk was very interesting and walked us through some amazing concepts and case studies including some “living” fabric which had been grown from fungi and bacteria.

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London Interiors Magazine has made its June 08 edition into the “Eco Issue” and they have profiled Pli and the Reee Chair.

If you’re lucky enough to live in Chelsea, Battersea, Islington, West Hampstead, Greenwich, Clerkenwell or Docklands you might receive a copy through your door soon. You can subscribe or download past editions of the magazine from the website (click the cover image).

The text of the article on our chair is here…

Pli’s latest products are now available through the UK’s leading online sustainable furniture retailers. A group of new and established retailers are offering eco-friendly furniture and homeware for competitive prices and we are really pleased to have been chosen as a supplier to so many already this year.

You can find selected designs from our Grass, Reee, Hoop and Twist ranges at Nigel’s Eco Store, One Eco Home, The Greenhaus and Hidden Art. More retailers will be stocking our products soon and we will be announcing them over the next few weeks.

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Here’s the film we have made about Pli’s Reee® chair - talking about why we have created a new product from recycled computer games consoles and how the designers Sprout have approached the challenge of meeting our demanding brief. Does the original product live on in the next? Do the games you’ve played have an echo in the seat they gave rise to? We found players to reflect some of the most popular games.

The London Design Festival runs between 20 and 23 September - the Reee® chair is on display at two different locations so we hope you’ll be able to visit our stands and say hello…

* in the London Manufacturing Advisory Service exhibition at Designers Block on 3-10 Shoreditch High Street and
* in [re]design’s SIT UP exhibition at 100% Design in Earl’s Court (Stand O165, 100% Futures).

Pli is very happy to announce we have received a grant from the Enhance Capital Fund, administered by London Remade, to assist us with the product development, testing and tooling of the Reee® chair.

The Observer Magazine’s Lucy Siegle has picked the Reee® chair to top the Green Gauge of this month’s ethical living stories.

The Reee® chair goes to the Eden Project on 25 May where it’ll be displayed as part of the kNOwtrash Exhibition in the Core Building. The kNOwtrash exhibition will be opened by Tim Smit, CEO of the Eden Project.

Pli launched our latest prototype product, the Reee™ chair, at the Metropolitan Works 07 Show on 10 May. The Metropolitan Works gallery is at 41 Commercial Road, London E1 1LA. The exhibition runs until 24 May and it’s open to the public.