Koukoutsi eco-material
Laboratory
Koukos de Lab
Location
Lesvos, GR
Year
2021
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Olive's Blonde Pip
Olive's Dark Core
Our novel idea for a new material deriving from the final waste of the olive – a product massively found in the Mediterranean Sea that encircles our island - represents our vision of an evolving world that values the environment in which we live. It is not only crucial to reduce environmental impact but to develop a whole new concept that reconsiders eco-waste and reinvents ways of using it also in modern design.
Our starting point was the revival of a traditional seating bench, proceeding to visualize a concept that brings elements of natural eco waste into our homes through a whole innovative design approach. Therefore, our next steps included the production of a side table that incorporated a more modern approach for our eco-material.
Our mantra revolves around the idea that everything we design should respect nature and we could not have found a better place to accomplish this than this small village.
Uses- furniture, tiles, walling solutions, home interior products,
Features of the material
Durable
Extra hard
Water-resistant
Surface waterproof
Thickness as from 8mm to 200mm
Cuttable
Glueable
Applicable indoors and outdoors in shades
Founders Christos Ververis designer and Irene Moutsoyiannis marketeer are tackling the issue of using eco waste to make something valuable out of it. The answer is to turn the olive core into a durable material that can be used in furniture and objects. This raw olive end material is already being used for heating purposes, but it could gain more value and turn into a new eco-multi-purpose material.
Our material has a story to tell, it reflects our thoughts, our origin, our roots, and our aspiration for a better future. Christos Ververis and Irene Moutsoyiannis, two individuals from different academic backgrounds sharing the same origin from a mountainous village in Lesvos Island yet with so different work paths succeeded in sharing a vision, through design, and the need to take it to the next step.
Our material has a story to tell, it reflects our thoughts, our origin, our roots, and our aspiration for a better future. Christos Ververis and Irene Moutsoyiannis, two individuals from different academic backgrounds sharing the same origin from a mountainous village in Lesvos Island yet with so different work paths succeeded in sharing a vision, through design and the need to take it to the next step.
They took a lip of faith, they orientated in the current situation, they flied away with their vision of an evolving design world, and finally they eco nestled with the “koukoutsi eco-material” that combines the story of their land and the need of the global community for a holistic design approach.
In the era when everything is under doubt and re-evaluation a message of certainty is transmitted from a remote dot of the Greek map to the entire world, extremely remote yet so powerful.
