AIRBUS LAUNCHES UPCYCLED FURNITURE COLLECTION

AIRBUS is giving aviation enthusiasts the chance to furnish their homes with striking furniture items recycled – or “upcycled” – from end-of-life aircraft parts. The “A Piece in the Sky” initiative was showcased at Airbus’s Innovation Days, held at the Leadership University Centre in Toulouse in May. Airbus employees Anaïs Mazaleyrat and Jérémy Brousseau thought up the innovative idea at an internal training programme at Airbus’s Leadership University in Toulouse in 2017. It was then picked up by Airbus BizLab, the company’s global network to support start-ups in 2018. There’s currently a small pre-order collection available online, with delivery scheduled for January 2020 – though regular readers will know that deliveries are frequently delayed from aircraft manufacturers. There is also a collection featuring products with limited supply. airbus.com…

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