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17-25 October 2026
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Reos

Biomaterial chair

Hosted by Adam Friedrich and Beata Mielus

This project is now archived and was part of DDW22

This project is part of
Embassy of Rethinking Plastic
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Beata Mielus
Polish designers Adam Friedrich and Beata Mielus designed and developed a chair from a composite based on crushed and cooked bones. This biomaterial can be molded into many different shapes. The chair also contains bioplastics from coffee grounds and eggshells.

Reos biomaterial

To create a biomaterial, the bones are granulated, then cooked and used as a base for the composites which can utilize various types of household waste. This biomaterial can be molded and shaped in many different forms. The material can be treated with various techniques such as milling, moulding, cutting etc. This chair utilizes bioplastic with coffee grounds and egg shells, but there's many more types of waste that can be combined with this material to create different properties and visual effects.
Beata Mielus
Beata Mielus
Beata Mielus

Colofon

Designer, researcher, manufacturer Adam Friedrich
Designer, researcher, manufacturer Beata Mielus
Polestar
MCI
Triodos
Dutch Design Foundation
Ministerie van OCW
Gemeente Eindhoven
Provincie Noord-Brabant
Brabant C
VPRO
Fonds 21
Stir