THE SPRING EDITION
NEAP
The Neap range is a range of high-end storage furniture displaying the Algite material on its unique door fronts. It aims to prove that seasonality can be considered throughout commercial furniture design.
There are 3 seasonal variations: spring, summer, and autumn, reflecting the seasonal cycles that produce the seaweed species used in the Algite fronts. The spring edition has a solid ash timber carcass, with the summer edition using English oak and the autumn using sweet chestnut. All of the carcasses are stained jet black with an all-natural finish that allows the beautiful grains of the natural timbers to shine through, while showing off the door fronts.
Material locality is an important factor contributing to the project’s sustainability credentials, with all materials used being local to the UK. All stages of the project from raw materials extraction right through to the manufacture will take place in the UK. Too often in this industry we see materials shipped all over the world just to be processed and shipped back again. Reducing that transport is just another way this project considers the environment.
Neap is aimed at the high-end commercial domestic furniture market, combining sustainability with quality materials and finishes, while using machine manufacturing techniques that are suitable for large batch production in a UK workshop.
Both Neap and Algite were designed to highlight the negatives of a linear relationship with materials. If the furniture design industry were to explore this avenue of seasonality in materials usage, it could kickstart a truly sustainable commercial furniture revolution. Please contact us for more information
