Leave No Trace Pop-Up Exhibition CDW 2023

Leave No Trace – More than a moment

In May this year during Clerkenwell Design Week, The Senator Group presented the ‘Leave No Trace: A pop-up installation’ celebrating the beauty of waste taking place during Clerkenwell Design.

“Sustainable practices are constantly emerging globally. These advancements are raising demands for designers to consider a products environmental impact from conception to materials and manufacturing.

The Leave No Trace pop-up exhibition was curated to bring consciousness to creatives within the furniture industry and demonstrate how we can evolve our thinking beyond the basics, to harness preservation, longevity and renewal. We don’t have all the answers but we’re asking the right questions.”

Each piece within the installation was design to use the materials gathered from their Sustain Business. Sustain is part of The Senator Group is a 15,000ft2 recycling centre, built in 2009, to handle not only our own waste but also that of the UK’s contract furniture industry. To date, Sustain has diverted over 750,000 items of furniture away from landfill and recycled over 50,000,000kgs of material.

“Drawing from Sustain’s waste streams, our talented team of designers and engineers have reworked recycled materials to produce reformed pieces that inspire and raise awareness about the sustainable future furniture concepts as well as showing raw materials in a creative way, celebrating the beauty that can be created from a recycled source. “

“As designers and consumers, we all have a responsibility to reduce our personal impact by seeking new materials, methods and tools that promote sustainability. The installation showcases the many possibilities for sustainable furniture design and manufacturing and we hope it sparks conversations and ideas that embrace the beauty of sustainable possibilities.”

We don’t have all the answers but we’re asking the right questions.