events Design Week 2018 territory

17.04.2018 - 22.04.2018

PENTATONIC

Art+Design

5vie event

physical event

Pentatonic will curate the set up for this year 5VIE info point. In the most basic of senses, we are a furniture company. But at pentatonic, we’re here to do something different – if we weren’t, there would be no point in us being here at all. We’re turning problems into opportunities; landfill into lifestyle; trash into treasure. Last year, more than 480 billion plastic bottles were bought around the world – equivalent to 20,000 per second, or 1.2 million every minute. The numbers are equally mind-bending for aluminium cans and glass bottles, but despite all efforts to date, the majority of these objects end up outside the recycling system, in the ground, in our oceans, washed up on distant island beaches, forming waterborne masses so vast that they almost constitute islands in themselves. At pentatonic, we invent new materials using the world’s most abundant and dangerous resource – human trash – and we do so without compromising an inch on design, performance or function.