Furniture for Keeps: The Anti-Disposable Flat-Pack Bed (Ideal for Renters)
Feature by Annie Quigley
Recently in my inbox: Keeps, a Seattle-based brand creating furniture that’s the opposite of throwaway. The company is helmed by co-founder and lead designer Andrew Cheng, who, after graduating from California College of the Arts in 2014, was dismayed to find that his own big-box furnishings barely held together as he moved from apartment to apartment and city to city, then broke down entirely—a story that’s all too familiar to modern movers.
Cheng’s Keeps designs are made with flexibility and longevity in mind and a mission to avoid the landfill at all costs. The furniture is made from sustainably sourced wood and can be easily assembled and disassembled, over and over again, no tools needed. Because each piece is designed to come apart, time-worn pieces can more easily be repaired or replaced by the company if needed. And Keeps plans to launch a buy-back, repair, and resell program in 2023 for anyone who needs to part with their furnishings—just another way to avoid the trash.
