Jean Paul is the founder of the upcycled home décor brand [ JP RECYCLE DESIGN ]
Year founded: 2018
Design location, studio: Lebanon 🇱🇧
Raw material sourcing location: Lebanon 🇱🇧
Manufacturing location, production: Lebanon 🇱🇧
Meet the founder
Jean Paul is the founder of the JP RECYCLEDESIGN brand. Always passionate about recycling, he is acutely aware of its importance for sustainable development. It was during a walk in Jounieh, Lebanon, the country where he lives, that he came face to face with mountains of plastic waste in the sea. He decided to take a closer look at upcycling to find a solution for this plastic waste, which severely pollutes the environment. A year later, working with designers, Jean Paul began offering recycled plastic décor items.
About the brand
The brand is trying to change the image associated with plastic waste by turning it into trendy upcycled décor. To do this, it produces familiar items in a terrazzo style. Terrazzo consists of fragments of stone, colored marble, and polished cement, giving it a sparkling mineral appearance. Thanks to a precise creative process, Jean Paul Farès is able to offer designer décor items. The brand offers coasters, candles, a soap dish, and a catchall tray on Meanwhile Boutique. Sorted by color, the plastic is processed before being incorporated into Jean Paul's creations. Handmade, his creations are unique and artisanal.
Eco-friendly impact
The brand offers creations made from upcycled plastic. NGOs, businesses, and citizens supply the creator, who sorts the plastic himself. His terrazzo plastic allows him to conceal the waste-like appearance of the plastic he uses. He is also able to reuse large quantities of plastic, thereby enabling greater recycling of this waste found worldwide. Combined with Lebanese cement and eco-friendly paint, the recycled plastic creates trendy décor items. Jean Paul's approach allows plastic destined to be waste—with little known about what to do with it—to be recycled, truly helping to protect the environment. And for good reason: thanks to him, 2 tons of plastic have already been recycled since 2019. His signature product, the small flower pots, are even nicknamed "their green smile" by his customers.
The brand's values:
Jean Paul makes sure to give waste a second life, thereby helping to make the environment a priority.
Plastic is reused to create the brand's products.
JP RECYCLE DESIGN transforms materials so they can be reused for its trendy décor items.
The brand has its own distinctive expertise. The plastic is processed in-house, as is the creation of the terrazzo plastic. Finally, at JP RECYCLE DESIGN, everything is made by hand, making the brand an expert in its field.
The décor items are handmade by the creator in his workshop.
Each piece is unique because it is handmade. In fact, the items may differ slightly from one another in detail.
