At Jablite we are actively seeking out way to innovate our business; our thinking, our processes, our product range – the whole kit and caboodle.

So, when we were approached by a couple of talented young designers studying for an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London, we were interested to hear what they had to say.

Attua Aparicio and Oscar Wanless, now known as the research and design studio, Silo, set to find new ways of working with some free material provided to them by Jablite. And, as these two photographs show, I think it is fair to say they have found a new way of working with the raw material. 

The table and chair feel and look more like stone or hardwood than EPS. Being handmade, they are both essentially unique products that demonstrate the creativity of the Silo approach.

“We design the form to give it a dark, but playful quality. They are emotive, quite limb like, which is something we choose to embrace. We want furniture and the spaces we use to be more expressive of us and our personalities,” say Silo.

This is certainly EPS as we have never seen it before; we look forward to seeing what Silo comes up with next…