Vignettes
Curated vignettes around the pavilions will showcase inspiring furniture, interior design, construction materials and textiles.
XFrame, Signature Flooring and ALD Group have created beautiful vignettes to display these products in an original and refreshing way to inspire visitors as to the future of materials, interior design and furnishings.
Explore the vignettes of the 2026 Green Design Show!
A1: e9 Design
e9 Design exists because its founder, Steve Higgs, came out of retirement to prove something to his own children: that furniture could be better than take, make and dispose. He knows the trade from every angle, having opened mega factories in China and worked the full range from entry-level commercial manufacturing through to the premium end, and he came away certain that furniture can do better.
That belief is built into the product, which is modular and stand-alone designer sofas and coffee tables on a durable steel frame with premium comfort foam, fully customisable with moveable backs and arms and unzippable, replaceable covers, made locally from 97 per cent recyclable and biodegradable materials and designed to be repaired, recovered and reconfigured rather than thrown away.
A54: Defy
Defy Design — Defy began with two industrial designers, Sam and Will, who could not unsee the problem their own profession helped create, and who refused to keep drawing more things destined for landfill. What they really wanted was to stop the flow of virgin plastic altogether, so they built a design studio and a hands-on manufacturing capability around a single conviction: that the plastic already in the world is a resource, not waste, and that good design can keep it in use. Working across injection moulding, compression moulding and recycled sheet material, they turn discarded plastic into everything from combs and plant pots to lighting, furniture and interiors, and they bring others with them through workshops, volunteering and waste-to-product plans that help businesses find their own place in the circular economy.
A51: X Frame
XFrame was created by architects who were tired of watching design vision get compromised the moment it met reality, and who decided the building system itself had to change rather than the idea. Their mission is spaces designed for change: a modular, demountable, fully reusable framing system that works with a designer's intent instead of against it, so walls, rooms and booths can be reconfigured, relocated and re-used rather than demolished. Behind it sits a studio of architects, designers and engineers who treat circularity as the starting point rather than an afterthought, a belief captured in their own line, designed for now and built for later.
A47: Planet Protector
A women-owned and led circular materials business positioning itself as a new force in building circularity, closing the loop on waste streams to redefine sustainable construction materials. For the built environment it makes circular insulation panels from wool, recycled denim and recycled poly that improve energy efficiency and thermal and acoustic performance in construction projects, extending into thermal insulation, acoustics and biodegradable geotextiles for soil stabilisation and erosion control. The model turns recovered fibre into a resource through local contract manufacturing and fibre recovery and recycling, so waste diverted from other industries becomes performance material for buildings rather than landfill.
A48: Nusantara
Nusantara is built on a simple refusal to cut down another tree, working only with reclaimed teak salvaged from traditional and heritage structures and turning it into sleek, timeless furniture rather than the usual rustic cliché. What sets them apart is how seriously they take proof: the studio is now officially FSC Recycled and FSC Mix certified. In a sector where they see the same terms used without any real accountability behind them, they treat that transparency as the whole point, pairing certified reclaimed teak with natural water-based finishes, recycled upholstery, biodegradable packaging and made-to-order production so the story behind each piece can actually be traced.
https://nusantaralifestyle.com/
A11: Karv Studio
Karv Studio is the work of artist Tabitha Porley, who hand-sculpts natural limestone clay into bespoke pieces, working the material so that the surface captures the texture of erosion and timeless beauty. There is a meditative, intentional quality to the practice, where returning to basics and slow hand movements let her embrace every imperfection rather than smooth it away, bringing the raw beauty of the outside world onto an interior wall.
https://www.instagram.com/karv_studio/
A11: Claywise
Claywise makes clay plasters that turn a material as old as the ancient world into a genuinely contemporary interior finish, blending natural clays, minerals and pigments into breathable, sculptural walls. The appeal is as much about health as beauty: the plasters are non-toxic and release no harmful chemicals, they regulate indoor humidity and temperature for comfort, and they are made from locally sourced, renewable earth with minimal processing, so a damaged wall can be repaired by hand rather than ripped out.
A11: Natural Brick Company
Natural Brick is a collective of researchers and craftspeople who investigate the possibilities of waste in design, conceiving material compositions from waste streams and using artisanal masonry and concrete techniques to produce custom bricks and bespoke forms for architectural projects. It sits at the meeting point of research and craft, turning discarded material into characterful, made-to-order masonry through ranges such as Lutyens and its Custom Casting service, so waste becomes a considered design element rather than a constraint.
A11: House of O'Connell
House of O'Connell is the interior design studio of Cristy O'Connell, working in an architecture-led, soft-minimalist way that responds to light, proportion and materiality to create calm, enduring spaces rather than of-the-moment ones. Her process starts with what already exists in a space and how it is used day to day, layering furniture, lighting, art and considered materials into interiors that feel settled and genuinely lived in. It is this materiality-led sensibility she brings to designing A11, holding the pieces within it in a calm, cohesive setting.
A8: Interiaura
Interiaura are made-to-measure artisans of fine drapery and upholstery, with more than 35 years of craft behind them, guided by a master upholsterer and a master of soft furnishings and made by hand with a three-year quality guarantee. Their sustainability sits in the craft itself: reupholstery, loose covers and repairs that extend the life of existing furniture rather than replacing it, a leaning towards natural, toxin-free fabrics such as cotton, linen, wool and silk, and a commitment to teaching skills to the next generation, extended through a livelihood-focused sewing training programme that helped vulnerable women rebuild their lives.
A4: Loomtex / Instyle
Instyle is a contract textile house for the commercial interior, supplying sustainable textiles, vinyls, contemporary leathers, wallcoverings and acoustic finishes across workplace, hospitality, healthcare, education and public projects, with circularity treated as core rather than cosmetic. What sets it apart is that it produces locally through LoomTex, one of the last remaining woollen weaving mills and dyehouses of its kind, so it can weave and dye its own wool cloth, keep rare craft skills alive and control quality and provenance from raw yarn to finished fabric. That vertical, local capability underpins its Cradle to Cradle Certified® ranges and initiatives such as RE:BORN and Mud to Marle, alongside take-back thinking that reclaims fabric at end of life, letting a specifier follow a material through its whole life rather than only as far as installation.
A4: Circular Sourcing
Circular Sourcing is a curated marketplace for deadstock and surplus textiles, giving interior designers a way to specify high-quality upholstery and interior fabrics that already exist rather than commissioning new production. What makes it work for interiors is low minimum orders, a growing upholstery and natural-fibre edit, and cloth sourced directly from mills and brands such as LoomTex, all verified and traceable with climate impact measured, so a beautiful fabric arrives with proof of where it came from and what it saved. It turns surplus into a genuine specification resource, supported by an open-source Guide to Surplus, so choosing circular interior fabric is as straightforward as buying new.
A4: Sustainable Living Fabrics
Sustainable Living Fabrics has been making high-quality wool and wool-rich commercial upholstery textiles for architects, brands and manufacturers since 1968, built for the long, hard life of furniture, fitouts and interiors and backed by a twelve-year warranty. Its environmental credentials are unusually rigorous and independently proven and is certified 100 per cent carbon neutral, with no PFAS or fluorocarbon treatments, an Architects Declare Product Aware listing, and a shift towards circular-economy thinking through its deadstock and recycling policies. The result is a locally made, renewable wool cloth designed to last and to be specified with confidence rather than caveats.
Green Trail Hub: Outside In
Outside In is a design-led biophilic greenery specialist that designs, installs and maintains extraordinary green spaces for commercial interiors, from moss and green walls to atrium and forest installations, treating greenery as part of the architecture rather than an add-on. Its value is measurable, with gains in wellbeing, productivity and acoustics, WELL and Green Star consulting, Toitū carbon-reduce certification, and a Lease and Love plant-hire model that keeps planting in circulation and cared for rather than bought and discarded.
Green Trail Hub 2: Textile Recyclers Group + Birkenstock
Vestra Form (Textile Recyclers Group) Vestra Form is TRG's own panel product, taking the textile waste it recovers and pressing it into acoustic and interior panels for fit-out, so material that would otherwise be downcycled or sent to landfill re-enters the built environment as a finished surface. It is the idea proven in real commercial settings, having been specified in a collaboration with Birkenstock for their retail stores, where recycled-textile panels made out of old Birkenstocks bring warmth, acoustic performance and a visible circular story into the space. For a specifier it closes a satisfying loop, turning end-of-life fabric back into a durable, design-led interior product rather than a waste problem.
A56: Market Timbers
Market Timbers has supplied natural cork and timber to architects, designers, builders and homeowners since 1947, sourcing high-quality timber and imported organic cork to create long-lasting, timeless spaces. Its sustainability edge is cork: it is the only stockist of Amorim, a world-recognised pioneer in sustainable cork production, offering a completely natural, reusable and recyclable material across Green Star-certified flooring, wall, cladding, decking and benchtop ranges, backed by expert advice, bespoke solutions and long-term aftercare.