What happens when several upcycling workshops join forces?

france
furniture
mattresses
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sustainable products
from waste to resources
Published on 01 December 2025
What happens when several upcycling workshops join forces?

What did they do?

What happens when several upcycling workshops join forces?

Meet Stüdio Emmaüs, a collective uniting textile and furniture upcycling projects from different Emmaüs workshops in France. Their shared mission? To breathe new life into abandoned materials while providing employment opportunities to people at risk of social exclusion.

Thanks to Stüdio Emmaüs, these different workshops can pool their skills, share experiences and take on a wider range of ambitious upcycling projects together.

Stüdio Emmaüs is more than a studio. It’s a blueprint for collective action, showing how social enterprises can work together to drive an inclusive and ecological transition.

This is one of the case studies featured in our project on Social Enterprises’ Role in Furniture and Mattresses’ Circularity: https://www.rreuse.org/our-work/projects/social-enterprises-role-in-furniture-and-mattresses-circula... 

Discover more on Stüdio Emmaüs: www.studio-emmaus.org

Picture credits: Stüdio Emmaüs

Involved organisations

Emmaüs France
Emmaüs France
Discover organisation

IKEA Social Entrepreneurship