Turning Waste Into Modern Heirlooms

Sustainable Table Manufacturing – From Waste to Centrepiece

Every table starts with a question: What can this waste become?

From compact side tables to four-metre conference centrepieces, our tables reflect a commitment to sustainable table manufacturing — combining reclaimed materials, bespoke design, and in-house craftsmanship.

Working from our Brighton studio, we transform waste into functional, enduring pieces for homes, workspaces, hotels and cultural settings. Whether we’re working with oyster shells, coffee grounds, post-consumer plastics or building site masonry, our goal remains the same: to give waste new life through bold, practical design.

Bespoke Design, Fully Made in the UK

Everything is designed, cast, finished and assembled in-house. We handle both one-off commissions and small-batch production runs — with the flexibility to scale, colour-match, or tailor components for different settings.

Clients can choose between:

  • Fully fabricated tables with sculptural or minimal bases
  • Tabletops only, designed to integrate with their own or existing leg systems
  • A single signature piece or rollout-ready series

Every design is custom-developed in collaboration with our client, with colour palettes often based on Pantone references, interior finishes or waste type. Because we manage every stage of fabrication ourselves, we’re able to deliver precise colour control and highly refined, hand-finished results.

Explore our Tate Modern case study  or The Sessile, London to see our table materials in action.

Materials That Tell a Story

We work with a wide range of waste materials — both post-consumer and project-specific. Some of these include:

  • Crushed oyster shells
  • Shampoo bottles
  • Coffee grounds and tea
  • Food packaging, construction waste, and plastics

Each tabletop is cast as a custom surface with depth, pattern, and tactility unique to that commission. No two pieces are the same — and that’s the point. We see waste as a material of possibility, not limitation.

Our in-house R&D allows us to test, refine and push material behaviour — ensuring structural strength, durability, and visual quality. Every finished piece reflects a balance between sustainability, technical craft, and visual presence.

From Homewares to Hospitality

Spared tables appear in restaurants, hotel lobbies, wellness spaces, retail environments and private homes. Whether you’re designing for one guest or one thousand, we can develop a solution that’s equal parts aesthetic and responsible.

See how we supported Room2 Belfast with a reception desk and café tables made from recycled shampoo bottles.

The Future of Furniture, Reimagined

This is what sustainable table manufacturing looks like — not just low-waste or recycled, but a system that keeps materials in use and stories in circulation. Our tables are not just functional pieces — they’re material statements.

Designed to last. Made in the UK. Spared from landfill.

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Circular Design at Corner, Tate Modern- Tables made with Coffee and shell by Spared
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Custom Sustainable Furniture by Spared
Custom recycled tables
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A little bit more about our sustainable table manufacturing:

Spared’s tabletop work, showcased under our Volume Creative banner at Material Matters 2022, received spotlight coverage from Mix Interiors, they’re described as ‘commissionable “Disc” tabletops… made from masonry, plastic bottle tops, seafood shells and coffee grinds.’ You can read more here.

Our approach to circular table design was also cited by Seen PR in their Materials preview: ‘Spared … creating sculptures … from waste, including plastics, food and masonry detritus’ — read more here.

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