HighSociety

HighSociety is a design practice based in Sesto, in South Tyrol, Italy, working where material innovation meets technology and craftsmanship. The studio treats waste as a primary resource rather than a leftover, upcycling post-industrial organic residues into plant-based lighting and furniture, and argues that discarded matter can carry both performance and beauty.

Projects follow the waste streams the studio finds around it: industrial hemp grown at 1,350 metres for the Highlight pendant lamps, and residues from beer, coffee, wine and tobacco production, used whole so the pieces come out of zero-waste processes. The work has earned coverage in Wallpaper*, Dezeen, Domus and Forbes, and a place among the thirty designers profiled in the book Wasted. When Trash Becomes Treasure.