STACKLAB

STACKLAB is a Toronto-based design studio founded in 2013 by Jeff Forrest, working across furniture, lighting, installations and architecture. Its name refers to a software stack: every collection starts as a flexible system with an algorithmic backend that can be tuned for supply chain, manufacturability, logistics, form and cost, rather than as a single fixed object.

That systems approach is applied to material waste. The Felt Collection reuses post-industrial textile remnants, Garrison uses reclaimed rebar from construction clean fill, Cube repurposes single-use manufacturing equipment and Ash makes near-complete use of trees felled by the emerald ash borer. Production stays within roughly 300 miles of the Toronto studio through regional partners, and pieces such as the Mura side table and Wishbone console are sold through a dealer network.