Coffee Silverskin
The one thing roasting leaves behind — a fine husk, repurposed as a subtly speckled material.
About this material
Silverskin is the fine membrane that wraps every coffee bean, and it is the single by-product released when beans are roasted. Between 200,000 and 400,000 tonnes of it are produced worldwide each year — a quiet stream of waste behind the world's most consumed drink.
Recovered together with an Italian coffee roaster, Highsociety Studio treats this delicate husk as raw material, not as dust to be swept away. Its fine fibres are worked into surfaces that keep the material in circulation rather than in the bin.
The result carries a dark, finely speckled character — subtle warmth and quiet detail, drawn from something the coffee world usually overlooks.
Properties
Coffee silverskin — the thin husk of the bean removed during roasting — recovered together with an Italian coffee roaster. Dark, finely speckled surface.
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