UPCYCLING: A NATURE AND AN INSTINCT

phelipeau flower

L'upcycling

Looking for ideas every day.

Sometimes strange or funny ideas.

Because upcycling is not meant to be a heavy process but a game.

Reducing our waste and reusing our containers, yes but not only that.


At D-LAB, upcycling means asking everywhere, as soon as possible,

how to perpetuate the cycle,
how to give a new life,
how to create and recreate,
even from very little.


These are the candles that the factory across the street pours for you, into the bottles that you send back to us.

These small grids will allow you to transform your empty containers into a salt shaker or a spice jar.


These old sheets in which we make our hairnets and protective overshoes, at the factory.


These hens that we feed every day with the food scraps from our teams.

And their eggs that we cook for our guests.


Upcycling at D-LAB is a game, it's a nature and an instinct.


Cherish every object,

Challenging oneself,

Thinking in a handcrafted way,

Sometimes to bring forth the unexpected and poetry.



It's an extra soul.



Fleur Phelipeau

Founder of the D-LAB group

Fleur's open letters