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At DANDAN, we're not only saving pillows from the right-angled dictatorship. We're bringing them into a more circular economy by using only leftover fabric.

Why? The monumental impact of textile production on the environment is no secret anymore. Clothes, footwear and household textiles are indeed responsible for 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and landfills; with fast fashion’s constant provision of new styles leading to absurd quantities of clothes produced and thrown away. And while the move towards a circular economy is speeding up and progressively changing the face of the fashion industry, the awareness around the production of household textiles isn’t benefiting from the same attention. Most interior design items such as pillows or curtains are simply left out of the sustainability equation.

This is why we imagined DANDAN, a collection of pillows entirely designed and based on leftoverfabric. Letting the circular process become the design process itself.

We let the circular process become the design process itself.

DANDAN taps into the erratic nature of fabric leftovers, turning unpredictability into an opportunity to stand-out and rethink the standardized square pillow—a shape so far prevailing in every home, on every bed, on every sofa.

A perfect excuse to reinvent a two millennia old design.

That’s right. One misfit pillowcase at a time, we’re going against boredom and fast fashion, against sameness and waste. Call us weird, strange or futile if you like; we see it as a much needed refusal to comply with accepted industry norms, and a perfect excuse to reinvent a two millennia old design trapped in the past.

Sculptures you can sit on, squeeze and hug.

Each DANDAN pillow is therefore a unique combination of shapes, textures and proportions with an evocative silhouette. Real sculptures for our sofas, seats or beds, metamorphosing into something or anything before our eyes. Sculptures that are meant to be sit on, squeezed and hugged. Sculptures that are no longer out of reach.

Filled by passion, and Organic Kapok.

We're not only filling our pillows with purpose. We fill them by hand with Kapok, a fully sustainable fiber material pulled from the seed pods of the majestic Kapok tree without the need of water nor pesticides. And when we say filled by hand, we mean by us: a human-sized team of three passionate designers who simply wanted to make nice things that do good things.

Designed in Amsterdam. Manufactured in Seoul.

Designed in Amsterdam. Manufactured in Seoul.

By a human-sized team of 3 non-square pillow enthusiasts.

Made of Leftover Fabric

We're not only saving pillows from the right-angled dictatorship. We're bringing them into a more circular economy by using only leftover fabric.

Filled with Organic Kapok

We're not only filling our pillows with passion. We fill them by hand with Kapok, a fully sustainable fiber material pulled from the seed pods of the majestic Kapok tree without the need of water nor pesticides.