Designed by the past. Built for the future.
Over 40% of UK adults have thrown away an electrical item at least once in the last 12 months, contributing towards the UK’s fastest growing waste stream.
Material Focus, 2021
The Brief
As a start up team of 5, create a kitchen range for the future, using only the power of an induction hob, with no electronics or plastics. Tell the story of your cultural and material heritage.
The kettle and coffee maker must be suitable for distributed craft manufacture in the UK and repairable by the end-user.
The kettle and coffee maker must be suitable for distributed craft manufacture in the UK and repairable by the end-user.
In 2022, more than half a billion cheap electricals were purchased in the UK alone.
That’s 16 every single second.
Material Focus, 2021
The perfect match...
Cultural Heritage
In an increasingly mass-manufactured world, there is still space for something vibrant, tactile and handmade in the UK.
By pooling resources as a collective, overheads can be reduced, making it viable to showcase the work of multiple designers and make it available to people across the country.
The UK has over 150 endangered heritage crafts, 72 of which are critically endangered
Heritage Crafts Association, 2025
Capturing consumers with a compelling Buy-It-For-Life pairing
