Upcycled, circular, eco-smart – sustainability is finally becoming the most important factor in interior design. Nowadays, the contemporary world offers plenty of delicious variations on eco-chic interior design and design companies are competing to produce with negative carbon dioxide.

A few years ago, it was trendy not only to incorporate a jungle of plants into the interior, but also objets trouvés such as whole birch trunks and large shells. Since then, the concept of ”biophilic interior design” has emerged as its own field, where nature is brought into the interior through lush walls and lighting technology that mimics daylight to increase our well-being and health.

Swedish design duo Front has been studying the therapeutic effects of forests and nature for several years. Now they are releasing two magnificent projects for Italian Moroso. Fragments of wild nature appear in seating furniture as moss-covered formations in the Nature Furniture collection, and the modules in the Pebble Rubble sofa group resemble stones polished round by weather and wind.

Lebanese designer Roula Salamoun works in the same vein. Archipelago is her homage to the archipelago landscape, with rocks and coastal erosion recreated as sculptural sofas and armchairs. Another favorite – on a smaller scale – is Muub’s stone-like tableware Kuri. The random shapes in it come from the use of the Japanese technique kurinuki, where the ceramic shapes are carved from pieces of clay.