‘cooked wool + meditation pods’ by freyja sewell
as we become increasingly bombarded with information and stimulation, the world is becoming a louder place. in an initiative that goes beyond retail, freyja sewell has pioneered ‘headspace meditation pods’ from cooked wool – celebrating the power of silence, allowing to see the beauty in function and find calmness among the crowds.
each pod is made entirely from renewable resources. the rigid part is formed out of cooked wool – an entirely new sustainable material developed by freyja for the london design museum. a bio plastic made from potato starch is used to bind the natural fibers together to form a new composite blend. each dome is covered with a handcrafted wet felted cover – using a particularly durable course fleece, deriving from native bred sheep found in the UK.
HUSH meditation pods made from cooked wool
cooked wool process video
freyja went through an intense period of experimentation to develop her new material
the fibers are combined with a simple bio plastic made from potato starch
two part molds are used to form shapes from the biodegradable, renewable material
freyja created two small tables and a lamp from the combination of wool and starch
self-ridges then commissioned freyja to use her new material to create 10 ‘headspace pods’
also in store are four of freyja’s aclaimed HUSH pods made from industrial wool felt
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