LXRY Department: sustainable, stylish & worth having

Climate warming, overpopulation and overconsumption: we now have 7,9 billion people and the number is increasing by 200.000 every day. That is why it is important to be aware of the products around you. Durable, quality and stylish design. MASTERS highlights four products that here to stay are…Text: Bart-Jan Brouwer
Online editing: Mical Joseph

Environmentally conscious mermaid

The Egyptian lifestyle brand Reform Studio designs high-end lifestyle and fashion accessories from waste plastic, among other things, and has such responsible products handmade by local artisans. A collaboration has been set up with underwater model Sara El Laithy for the REBEL Collection. Plastic pollution poses a major threat to marine life. The company hopes to create even more awareness for this with this series of bags, from tote bags to belt bags. Each contains a label showing the number of plastic bags needed to create the design.

Clean planet

The sustainable homecare products from Kinfill not only ensure a cleaner home, but also a cleaner planet. The line is designed to reduce single-use plastic in everyday life. The 100% biodegradable extracts are made to mix at home with tap water in the Forever Bottle made of Italian glass. The bottle lasts forever and is also a beautiful accessory. Kinfill offers four different types of cleaning products, each suitable for a different surface and each with its own scent. No chlorides, no chemical fillers and no single-used plastic! Available from, among others Skins.

Royal candle

Cire Trudon is a French candle maker founded in 1643 and was the supplier to the royal court of Louis XIV and later of Napoleon. The world's oldest candle maker is still active after all these years. And every candle is still made by hand in the factory in Normandy. However, the company moves with the times and is committed to preserving diversity: part of the proceeds from the classic Cire candle, which smells of beeswax and honey, goes to saving the Orne Dark bees in the nature park Perche. According to the motto 'Deo Regique Laborant': bees work good for God and the king.

Every little bit helps

In 1863, the best paintings for the Salon were selected by the Beaux-Arts de Paris. About three thousand canvases failed the inspection. Napoleon III then decided to organize a parallel Salon des Refusès, where the rejected paintings were on display. It was a great success, but mainly because the public was attracted by the scandalous nature of the paintings. They had no idea of ​​its value: it also included works by Manet, Monet and Pissarro, who would give birth to Impressionism a few years later. You have to be able to appreciate beauty. That's why Atelier des Refuses was created: that uses the remains of the highest quality fabrics from the best home textile brands – scraps and strips of various sizes – to make decorative cushions, each unique items in terms of material, color and size (each cushion is handmade in Milan and has a tag with identification number). To this end, it recently entered into a collaboration with C&C Milano, whose fabrics – with refined colors and special patterns – are inspired by the Mediterranean coast. The goal of C&C Milano and Atelier des Refusés is partly to reduce textile waste to a minimum. With these pillows you not only make your home more beautiful, you also help the planet.