During this year’s edition of 3daysofdesign festival, Polish circular furniture brand LOOPE presented its innovative approach to sustainable design, engaging international visitors in a dialogue about sustainability, materials, and long-term responsibility.
The brand’s closed loop approach is based on reusing existing material rather than producing more. At some point, many people part with furniture that no longer aligns with their way of living. This common experience is a fundamental aspect of LOOPE’s design philosophy: if furniture could shapeshift rather than be discarded, not a single gram of plastic would go to waste. When you purchase a LOOPE piece, you do so with the option to return it and have it transformed into a different item from the collection at no extra cost.
During the festival, LOOPE underscored its commitment to redefining the role of responsibility in design and production. By inviting guests into LOOPE WORKSHOP, the brand created an engaging space for exploration, discussion, and first-hand experience with its shapeshifting, circular furniture.
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A space to experience circularity: LOOPE WORKSHOP
Throughout the event, the LOOPE WORKSHOP functioned as both an exhibition and a meeting point for professionals and design enthusiasts alike. Visitors were invited to engage in informal discussions over coffee, while interacting with furniture designed for transformation and longevity.
LOOPE’s ‘Effects’ range of versatile furniture, for both outdoors and indoors, designed by Studio Rygalik demonstrated how design can be responsible, yet joyful. Function, aesthetics, and sustainability are not separate goals for this brand, but deeply interwoven principles. The showcased pieces, created using recycled polyethylene, offered insight into the potential of mono-material circular systems.
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Designing with purpose: Tomek Rygalik’s Circular Talk
One of the highlights of the week was the talk delivered by LOOPE’s creative director, Tomek Rygalik. In his presentation, Rygalik posed a central question: “Why extract more when we can rethink what we already have?” Emphasizing the urgency of conscious design in the face of global overproduction, he outlined LOOPE’s core strategy of using a single, high-quality material, polyethylene, that can be repeatedly reprocessed and contain its properties. This approach not only minimizes waste but also maximizes circular value, demonstrating the creative potential within material constraints.
Design, dialogue, and circular practice
LOOPE WORKSHOP also functioned as a hub for professional meetings and idea exchange. Visitors conversed with the team to discuss topics like rotomoulding, closed-loop production systems, and the evolving role of adaptable furniture in today’s design industry.
The atmosphere reflected the brand’s ethos: open, engaged, and forward-thinking. By allowing guests to interact directly with shapeshifting furniture , LOOPE sparked meaningful conversations about the evolving nature of form and function in circular design.
Closing reflections
Throughout the festival, LOOPE team hosted „Circular show and tell over coffee” — an open invitation to reflect on how design innovation can emerge from limitations, and how true circularity requires ongoing commitment rather than trend-driven gestures.
The event concluded with shared insights, growing connections, and a renewed focus on long-term impact over short-term novelty.