Added: May 28, 2021
Last edited: May 28, 2021
"L’Estoc designs, produces, and sells furniture made from recycled materials and disused objects. Its goal is to improve and dignify the life of people with intellectual disabilities, fostering development through work. The combination of materials is the house trademark: From wooden blinds the company makes benches or screens, a door can become a table, and a crib is turned into a child desk." [1]
"In Catalonia there are 378.000 registered people with disabilities, 10.6% of which are of the intellectual type. Almost 55% of them are of working age, but only 78.000 actively work." [1]
A social lens to the circular economy
"We believe that a sustainable economy can be obtained not only from the environmental point of view, but also from the social one. For this, we transform recoverable materials into a valuable resource through a unique creative process that helps normalize the lives of people with disabilities.’”
L'estoc offers a wide range of possibilities for labour integration. The worker gets involved from the beginning in the whole process with a piece: Fixing, treating, polishing, painting, 35 and varnishing. The activity is stimulating, fosters creativity, and gives visibility to the skills of people with disabilities. L'estoc has been awarded the programs for Social Entrepreneurship of Momentum Project by BBVA and Esade (2015), La Caixa Foundation (2012) and the Generalitat de Catalunya (2011). [1]
[1] Case study sourced from: https://www.furn360.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Circular-economy-in-the-furniture-industry-11092018.pdf
Image sourced from: http://lestoc.com/en/estoc/
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