THE HOME OF SUSTAINABLE THINGS (HOST)

🏆 Big news from last night’s Surface Design Awards 2026! ReCinder is the winner of this year’s Material Transformation Award! This ground-breaking project demonstrates how traditionally unrecyclable vitrified ceramic waste can be transformed into a high-performance material and product range with a significantly lower carbon footprint. Huge congratulations to @rosynapper_studio @thehost.store and the entire team behind ReCinder for the tenacity, belief and commitment to proving that circular design is possible. Thank you to Surface Design Show @surfacethinking for championing innovation that shapes the future, Hamish Kilburn @hotel_travel_editor for hosting the ceremony with such great energy, and to the judges and everyone who voted for the fundamental change ReCinder represents. Congratulations to all the other winners and shortlisted candidates – stunning work all around! Here we go! ✨♻️

Proud to share our wall panels from @thehost.store and @myceen_com . It’s always been our effort to work with our local independent stores and great companies like @myceen_com . An amazing company developing carbon negative design and building materials by combining organic leftovers with mushroom mycelium. Not just with our vibes but it’s great to maintain our acoustics as-well. And goes without saying, they’re beautiful. Photographs by: @cody_obrien

Repost • from @sara__howard Three years ago, I published my book Circular Ceramics as a tool to help makers understand the supply chains that the ceramics industry relies on, and how we can build our own local waste ecologies to preserve natural resources and divert waste away from landfill. I now have just a handful of books left from the first print run, so get yours while you can via my website (the digital copy is available too, as always) Londoners you can also find my book at @thehost.store 🌍🌳 #thehomeofsustainablethings #circularceramicsbook

CALL TO ACTION We’re delighted to share that ReCinder has been shortlisted for the Surface Design Awards 2026 – Emerging Talent 🏆 ReCinder represents a fundamental shift in ceramic making. Vitrified (fired) ceramics aren’t recycled because the process is technically complex and intensive. ReCinder confronts this challenge, transforming fired ceramic waste that have long been considered unrecyclable into a viable material for innovation and production. This journey has been shaped by months of research, testing, setbacks, breakthroughs, and persistence. Today, we are reaching out to the community that believes design can be a powerful tool in building a less extractive and more environmentally responsible economy. 👉 Please support ReCinder by casting your vote. Link in bio 🗓 4 February 2026 📍 Business Design Centre 🎟 Free registration via the link above If you’re visiting the show, come and see us! 🌍🌳 #recinder

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ✨🌲 from The HOST We hope this festive season brings you joy and rest, renewed vigour and a little extra magic. Here’s to a creative, generous year ahead. ✨ Thank you for your trust, support, and shared belief in thoughtful responsible design. 🌲🌳🌍 #thehomeofsustainablethings

Beautifully handcrafted, this homeware collection is rich in decorative detail for inspired interiors. Thoughtfully made in London from locally sourced wood offcuts, it captures everything we love - original, low-impact design offering elegant, authentic pleasures that enhance daily rituals.   Designed by @micaellapedros , the range is available exclusively at HOST.   Final posting day before Christmas - 22.12 📸 @karinalidia ❤️   🌍🌳 

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The ideal gift for innovation lovers.   The Common Sands range of vases and candleholders is a highly distinctive reinterpretation of commonly found glass from fridges and microwaves transformed into a pioneering collection of homeware. 

Each piece is engraved and numbered, detailing the origin of the material, the location and date of its transformation, creating an informed connection between resource, process and user.   Made in Belgium from local resources of global origin.   Final posting day before Christmas - 22.12 📸 @karinalidia ✨   🌍🌳 

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The Art of Gifting This Season ✨   Handmade in East London - Hackney Woods tableware and Joining Bottles candleholders are paired with Built Editions serving trays crafted from reclaimed wood offcuts, alongside a Seashell vase and Artichoke candleholders made from regenerative biomaterials. Thoughtful, low-impact pieces designed to bring natural warmth and beauty to the festive table.   Final posting day before Christmas - 22.12   🌍🌳 

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SKINS photogram series traces the journey from freshness to spoilage - a quiet critique of global food systems, abundance, waste and our unease with perishability. Artworks are supplied unframed, with bespoke, handmade reclaimed-wood and glass frames available on request.   SKINS is available to purchase via the link in bio.   🌍🌳 

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SKINS - a unique series of limited edition photograms by Katrina Stamatopoulos. Ideal for collectors the series feature nine contemporary works, each limited to five editions and available exclusively at HOST. To read on SKINS visit our JOURNAL. Available to purchase now via the link in bio. 🌍🌳 #thehomeofsustainablethings #photogram #contemporaryart

Born from curiosity and an unfiltered creative impulse, SKINS by @katrinaastamatopoulos is a limited-edition photogram series exploring the entanglement of human and nonhuman life through the lenses of consumption, labour and image-making. Created using expired photographic paper and incremental shifts in the darkroom enlarger, the works trace a gentle gradient that mirrors the cucumber’s own lifecycle - fresh, ripening, bruising, spoiling. Each artwork becomes a quiet record of a lifespan, from crisp vitality to its inevitable collapse. Using a camera-less process, objects are placed directly onto photosensitive paper, fixing every crease and contour at a one-to-one scale. The technique carries an immediacy and intimacy - an imprint of something fleeting, held still, offering space for the viewer to see the familiar anew. Ideal for collectors who enjoy artworks with depth, materiality and story, the series features nine works, each limited to just five editions, available exclusively at HOST. Learn more about SKINS in our JOURNAL.

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Candleholders, oscillating vases and table brushes crafted from reclaimed hardwood offcuts in Yorkshire, paired with LUNA tableware made from locally sourced white clay. Thoughtful, low-impact pieces designed to bring natural warmth and beauty to the festive table.   Shop the collection via the link in bio. 📸 @karinalidia ❤️
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