Spared is a women-led design studio with a simple but powerful belief: waste can be beautiful in the right hands.
We’re Callie and Emma—founders, collaborators, and long-time friends—who met while working in-house for a large UK brand back in 2008. Our partnership began there, rooted in shared values and a love of well-considered, meaningful design. A few years later, 2015 to be exact, we joined forces to set-up Volume, our sister interior design studio.
We both come from different backgrounds—Emma studied product design and developed a deep love for modern, considered form, and natural materials. Callie studied interior design, with a passion for biophilia and building spaces that work in reciprocity with nature. Those foundations shaped our approach and sparked a shared ambition: to shift our clients perception of waste based materials, which, at the time, were still viewed by many as too unpolished to sit comfortably within refined, design-led experiences.
So, we started experimenting. Using our studio profits, we began reimagining waste into objects—just to show clients what was possible. The response was immediate and enthusiastic. People saw potential. So did we.
When Covid hit and our commercial interiors pipeline paused, we took the time to shape a new direction. We began to build what would become Spared—a dedicated offshoot of Volume, focused on turning waste into wonderful. We invested in R&D, built operational infrastructure, and developed our first lines of material-led products. Spared became a place to channel our values: circularity, transparency, collaboration, and creative experimentation.
Today, Spared is four years old. We still feel like a start-up in many ways—always pushing, always learning. But we’re proud to be a women-led design studio that partners with brands, designers, and architects to reimagine waste at every scale. From oyster shell tabletops to award-winning sculpture, our goal is to tell deeper stories through material.
Our work isn’t about perfection—it’s about progress. We know design can be a tool for a better future. And we’re just getting started.
