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In an effort to repurpose industrial textile waste before it hits a landfill, the Toronto, Ont., Canada-based furniture design company Stackabl, in partnership with select New York designers, has created colorful, customizable lines of high-end merino wool felt furniture and lighting. The company’s Baer Collection releases, produced in conjunction with the Mindy Solomon Gallery, debuted in December 2023 at the annual Design Miami art and design fair.
The Baer Collection includes a coffee table, pendant lighting and a variety of styles of seating made from postconsumer scrap aluminum, 60% recycled PET and wool felt remnants. Pieces are available through the company’s showroom and galleries such as Suite NY/C Suite NY, Lightform and LOOP Architectural Materials. A customer can also order seating or lighting using the company’s website, and with the online platform, the fabric colors are completely customizable, color layer by color layer.
The company’s proprietary software keeps track of remnants available from its suppliers, businesses such as Spinneybeck Filzfelt in New York and Sutherland Felt in Michigan. Robots at the manufacturing facilities cut the pieces to size for the order, and the pieces are hand-assembled by Stackabl staff.
The inaugural Stackabl collection was launched in 2021 in conjunction with designer Maison Gerard. Stackabl’s work has won numerous awards and representation from many of North America’s top galleries and showrooms. The Baer Collection honors Barbara Baer Captain, who led an effort to preserve Miami Beach’s Art Deco district in the 1970s.
Designer Jeff Forrest founded the Stacklab studio in 2013. Stackabl is a separate company spun off from Stacklab.
Correction: Fixed designer Jeff Forrest’s first name.