A limited-edition table collection made by disadvantaged communities using upcycled construction materials has debuted through a collaboration between two nonprofit organizations: Designing Justice + Designing Spaces and Formr. Called The Healing Forest Tables, the products are the first launch in Formr‘s new charitable initiative called The Donation Collection.
Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, an Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit architecture firm working to end mass incarceration, and Formr, which employs such disadvantaged groups as the formerly incarcerated, asylum seekers and others to create products using upcycled construction debris, teamed up for the new initiative, which benefits Designing Justice + Designing Spaces’ longtime partner A New Way of Life, a national organization that provides housing and support for women rebuilding their lives after incarceration.