KeepLife

KeepLife was founded in early 2017 around KL, a wood-like composite made from nut shells bound with a harmless binder, covered by an industrial invention patent. The material is proposed as a valid alternative to wood, and the project is run as a distributed design studio involving designers, companies and universities.

The brand, owned by Piila s.r.l. Società Benefit and based in Casapulla in the province of Caserta, applies KL from the micro scale of lamps, seating and tables to storage furniture and to wall coverings and technical partition systems. It was started by designers Pietro Petrillo and Ilaria Spagnuolo, both born in 1991 in Campania, whose research focuses on sustainability and materiality.