MadeBy by Second Nature
MadeBy recovered-material chair, stool, table and lighting arranged in a studio with piles of the coffee, wood and plastic waste they came from

MadeBy by Second Nature

Thoughtful homeware. 
Made from hotel waste.

We turn waste coffee, plastic, cardboard & glass from Second Nature hotels into homeware worth keeping. It’s one way we’re working towards our sustainability goals, and we’re helping the wider hospitality industry do the same.

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For your home

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Lighting, furniture and objects made from hotel waste.

For hotels & businesses

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Trade orders, or turn your own waste into products.

4 waste streams
many opportunities.

Coffee grounds, cardboard, plastic and glass arrive at hotels, bars and restaurants every day. We keep each stream separate, turn it into a workable material and make products from it. The products are modular: fixings come undone and parts separate, so a piece that has finished its life can be broken back down and made into something else.

The collection

Objects with another life.

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Materials & making

The future is in our hands.

Used coffee grounds and recovered plastics become tactile materials. Every piece begins by asking what the material can do well, then refining the form until it earns its place.

  1. Collect
  2. Prepare
  3. Design
  4. Make
  5. Return
  6. Repeat
How it’s made

MadeBy in use

Material character belongs in the room, not only in the workshop.

MadeBy recovered-plastic chair standing on a ring of shredded plastic flake in a sunlit room with herringbone parquet flooring
Fluted dark brown MadeBy bin with a slim brass handle standing on a concrete floor among loose coffee grounds, a pressed coffee puck and a portafilter in the foreground
Close detail of a MadeBy recovered-material furniture piece
A side table, a low stool and a chair in flecked dark recycled material standing on dry grass in an open field, with two distant trees on the hill behind

For hospitality projects

A hundred rooms. A small change that adds up.

Choose a coherent collection for a new opening, refurbishment or rollout. We help project teams consider quantity, finish, timing and the material story behind every piece.

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Hear what we make next.

Someone on a brown sofa behind a broadsheet newspaper, with a recycled pendant lampshade beside them

New pieces, material experiments and the occasional workshop note. Leave your email and we'll write when there's something worth showing.

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