{"id":131467,"date":"2021-11-29T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/furniture-made-from-leaf-leather"},"modified":"2021-11-29T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T02:24:09","slug":"furniture-made-from-leaf-leather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/furniture-made-from-leaf-leather","title":{"rendered":"Furniture made from leaf leather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/furniture-made-from-leaf-leather2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Brazilian design studio <a href=\"http:\/\/furf.com.br\/projeto\/outono\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Furf<\/a> designed furniture made with a leather-like material made from leaves, developed by organic tannery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.novakaeru.com.br\/beleaf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nova Kaeru<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vegan, plastic free <a href=\"https:\/\/materialdistrict.com\/?s=leather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leather<\/a> alternatives are a booming industry at the moment. One of the most notable examples is <a href=\"https:\/\/materialdistrict.com\/material\/pinatex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pi\u00f1atex<\/a>, made from leftover leaves after the pineapple harvest, but there are also leather-like materials made of anything from <a href=\"https:\/\/materialdistrict.com\/?s=tree+bark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tree bark<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/materialdistrict.com\/?s=fruit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fruit<\/a> leftovers to <a href=\"https:\/\/materialdistrict.com\/?s=mycelium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mycelium<\/a> (for an extensive list of options, click <a href=\"https:\/\/materialdistrict.com\/?s=leather+alternative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Nova Kaeru\u2019s material, called beLEAF, is a leather-like material made from the elephant ear plant, a plant with very big leaves. The material has similar characteristics to animal leather, but the main difference is, aside from being vegan, that the <a href=\"https:\/\/materialdistrict.com\/?s=co2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CO2<\/a> emissions of its manufacturing process is compensated by the carbon absorption of planting and leaf growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 Brazilian design studio Furf designed furniture made with a leather-like material made from leaves, developed by organic tannery Nova Kaeru. Vegan, plastic free leather alternatives are a booming industry at the moment. One of the most notable examples is Pi\u00f1atex, made from leftover leaves after the pineapple harvest, but there are also leather-like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}