Future > Factory > Furniture > launches ‘Get off that couch’

Five iconic armchairs from well-known Dutch furniture brands will be upholstered with a special material: ‘food for thought’, developed by Enschede Textielstad in collaboration with CSrugs and pattern designer Studio Anne Kolkman. From these chairs, visitors can watch the first episode of the newly launched series of short documentary portraits about this special movement Future > Factory > Furniture >.

Food for thought
In ‘Stof tot nadenken’ (‘food for thought’) from Enschede Textile City, Annemieke Koster shows how she and her team work with a unique weaving machine. She explains what they do differently to achieve the best, industrial, circular (partly recycled) woven furniture fabrics with Dutch wool and shares the challenges involved. We will also meet Dirk van Deursen. He is National Furniture Transition Advisor and Sustainability Advisor at Royal CBM. As an expert, he outlines the broader context of the series by way of introduction. The time for industry change is pressing.

Documentary series
The next episodes in this series will be released after Dutch Design Week on both futurefurniturefactory.com and DDW.nl. In it, viewers will get to know more people from the furniture industry chain who are (radically) changing this industry. The portraits focus on everyone's contribution to the transition to a circular chain, with sustainable materials and manufacturing and appropriate business models.

Future > Furniture > Factory >
Future > Factory > Furniture > is a collaboration between Royal CBM, Dutch Design Week and the Dutch furniture and textile companies CSrugs, Gelderland, Label Van den Berg, Lande Family, Leolux and Montis. They are joining forces because the complex ecological challenges of our time call for a fundamental transformation that no manufacturer can achieve alone. ‘It requires cooperation from the craftsmanship and ambition for innovation that we share as companies. From our specific strengths, we want to collectively explore how to embed circularity more deeply in our business processes, addressing numerous issues that demand answers.’