Bell Living Lab

Bell Living Lab is an Indonesian materials startup founded in 2020 in Bandung, where it grew out of research at the Institut Teknologi Bandung. Officially PT Kurva Lonceng Khatulistiwa, the company takes the coffee industry’s discards — pulp, parchment and spent grounds — and turns them into M-Tex, a leather-like sheet grown through microbial fermentation, and C-Foam, a mouldable panel.

Working with farming communities around Bandung, the lab processes several tonnes of coffee waste each month and collaborates with designers and brands who bring the material into furniture, lighting and interiors. The Natura collection, shown at Jia CURATED 2026 in Bali, stretches translucent M-Tex into lamp shades, while commissions for clients such as Paragon and Titik Koma have produced panelling and seating.