Cassina LAB: innovative, sustainable solutions

In its quest for innovative research and development and to experiment with processes and materials, the Cassina Research and Development Center gains a new ally ‒ Cassina LAB, tasked with guiding and bringing tangible results in terms of creating innovative design solutions and in transitioning toward a Sustainable product model. Assisted by the Poli.Design consortium of the Politecnico University in Milan, an internationally recognized center, this is the strategy through which Cassina pursues excellence.

PHILOSOPHY

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
CIRCULARITY
WELLBEING

The best design is inherently sustainable, in that it interprets a series of values ‒ from responsibility to the focus on exquisitely crafted spaces, from passion to courage ‒ that turns a timeless object into a product made to last a lifetime.

Armed with a company tradition that has always placed the culture of design at its core, Cassina accepts the challenge to expand its mission in the coming years in keeping with the principles of sustainability.

Circularity becomes a commitment that Cassina interprets along a supply chain defined by artisan craftsmanship, quality and expertise. This green pathway requires research into new circular materials that can be re-used to create new value, thus increasing the recycled content of the product. As well as the study of product recovery as it reaches its end of life – finding ways to make it recyclable.

This is the driving impetus behind sofas padded with soft recycled PET batting and armchairs that can be disassembled into their components to ensure proper recovery at the end of their life cycle.

Home interiors that promote psycho-physical wellbeing. The design of wellbeing is a demand dictated by contemporary lifestyles and ways of inhabiting our spaces. For Cassina, the pursuit of wellbeing means thinking about systems and furnishings that contribute to improving the value of interior design, blending design comfort and functionality.

COLLABORATION WITH THE POLITECNICO DI MILANO

The partnership between the Cassina Research and Development Center and the Poli.Design consortium of the Politecnico di Milano, produces design projects capable of engaging all the tactile, sensory and psychological aspects of dwelling in one’s home. From purification of the air we breathe to noise reduction, the kind of wellbeing that narrates the relationship between the quality of the space and one’s mood. The relationship between the designer and the inhabitant.