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REV On Air: Sustainable Furniture with Maker&Son Founders Alex Willcock & Felix Conran

REV On Air: Sustainable Furniture with Maker&Son Founders Alex Willcock & Felix Conran

FromREV On Air - Sustainable Stories by Rêve En Vert


REV On Air: Sustainable Furniture with Maker&Son Founders Alex Willcock & Felix Conran

FromREV On Air - Sustainable Stories by Rêve En Vert

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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Apr 13, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Today we are very excited to have on our first duo to the podcast - the Founders (and father and son) of the incredible British Sustainable furniture brand Maker&Son. 
Father Alex Willcock and Son Felix Conran give us a touching and insightful look into their journey of coming together to found their brand and the process of integrating sustainability into every element of their business. We touch upon the risks of unsustainable furniture, the methods of sourcing sustainable materials, and choosing furniture to last for generations.
As founders of this incredible furniture line, Alex Willcock and Felix Conran have much more in common than being father and son. A gifted musician, Alex trained as a cabinet maker and furniture designer who’s curiosity led him to start his career path in Australia, where he met Felix’s mother. For Felix he would always have a family entrenched in design. Being the third generation of the Conran family to work in the field, Felix has always been encouraged to shape and ground his natural intuitiveness, and is proud to carry on a tradition of pioneering products for the home.
In this podcast, we talk to Alex and Felix about how they are maintaining their core tenants of sustainability whilst scaling a business that is rooted in localised production and all natural materials. We delve into the issues of unsustainable manufacturing that has come to dominate the furniture world as we know it today, and how we can all begin to ask more questions about where our furniture is made and what is in it.
We hope it leaves you thinking about what a better world of what we put in to our homes could look like!
Find more details here: https://reve-en-vert.com/community/rev-on-air-sustainable-furniture-with-maker-son-founder-alex-wilcock-felix-conran/
Released:
Apr 13, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (90)

Every week, the REV podcast - “REV On Air” - will explore conversations and address key questions around sustainable fashion, natural beauty, wellness, organic food, politics, and conservation and discuss how we can all be living more consciously within these realms. The podcast will be a forum for honest dialogue, which will maintain its independence from the e-commerce platform and will welcome esteemed guests, who are passionately and progressively breaking down conventions, pushing boundaries and inspiring a new breed of thinking and being that is in harmony with the natural world.