Sustainability at Kirei Home
Given a Second Life
Sustainability isn't an afterthought at Kirei Home, it's the reason our furniture exists in the form it does, starting with the range that started it all: mango wood.
Mango wood is a renewable byproduct of the fruit industry. Once a tree stops bearing fruit, usually after fifteen to twenty years, it's harvested to make way for new growth, and that timber becomes the piece in your home, fewer trees felled for timber alone, less demand on hardwoods linked to deforestation. The wood itself is strong, slow grown, long-lasting and low-maintenance, with natural grain variation that means no two pieces are ever quite the same. Our hand-painted mango wood pieces come from the very same trees and the very same artisan communities, simply finished in traditional colour and pattern rather than left carved and natural.
Our lacquered pine and elm collection is a different material, and the newest addition to the range. It's designed in-house and sample-approved before a single piece is made, with every lacquered finish applied and checked by hand.
Some of our accessories, mango wood bowls and lamps among them, are made from the same sustainably sourced, slow grown mango wood as our furniture. Others, block-printed rugs, hand-painted metal lamps and jars, glassware, are chosen for the same considered, artisanal character rather than any shared material story.
We're just as considered about who makes our furniture. Our artisan partners in India work under Fair Trade principles, paid fairly, in safe conditions, with access to training and long-term work.
Sustainable design. Responsible sourcing. Furniture made to be kept, not replaced.