With growing attention placed on the environmental impact of the products we create and the interiors we design, sustainable material trends now lie at the heart of the conversation. While the composition of a piece of furniture or home textile might have previously been an afterthought, today it is front and center.
And while longevity plays a huge role in the creation of furniture and sustainable homes, the acceptance of biomaterials with shorter life cycles is also key. “With a greater understanding of sustainability, consumer and specifiers will be happy with wholly biobased solutions that may not last 10 years, but will instead provide us healthy, clean interior living for three years,” explains Purva Chawla, founder and partner of MaterialDriven, a global design agency and materials library. “At the same time, technical innovation will also drive the performance of biobased materials to match synthetic counterparts, too.”
