Normann Copenhagen Unveils Chairs Manufactured from Eelgrass, Hemp
Stockholm Design Week 2024 has seen companies launch various products, among them Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen, which launched a new collection of plant-base furniture in collaboration with Normann Copenhagen. The collection comprises of a pair of chairs, one of which combines hemp with eelgrass and another made purely from hemp. Eelgrass is a plant similar to seaweed. To create shells, the design duo preferred to use the aforementioned biomaterials instead of injection-molded plastic. They used hemp stems sourced from farms that discarded the stems as a waste product. For their eelgrass chair, they combined dried eelgrass that washed up on the…