Tobacco
The stems and leaves left after harvest — reborn as a warm, deeply tactile material.
About this material
Most of a tobacco plant never reaches a factory. Stems, stalks and low-grade leaves make up around 60% of its biomass, and worldwide these residues are burned or left to rot — releasing their carbon and, with it, traces of nicotine into soil and air.
In Italy's Po Valley, Highsociety Studio intercepts this residue before it becomes a disposal problem. We process it into a stable, refined material — a second life that keeps the biomass in use instead of going up in smoke.
The surface it yields is unmistakably organic: a warm brown finely speckled with the grain of the leaf, pairing the agricultural tradition of the Italian plains with forward-thinking circular design.
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