Plantd Expands into Furniture with Modern Office Brand Studio TK

Plantd began with a simple but ambitious question: what if one of the world’s most common building products could be made from fast-growing perennial grass instead of trees?

That question led us into homebuilding, where our structural panels are designed to serve as a high-performance drop-in replacement for traditional OSB. It also led us to build a new kind of American manufacturing platform: vertically integrated, powered by automation, designed around fast-growing crops, and built to turn atmospheric carbon into durable, useful materials.

Now, that same material platform is entering a new category: commercial furniture.

Plantd is proud to announce that Studio TK, a North Carolina-based contract furniture company focused on social applications, is our first furniture industry partner. Studio TK is incorporating Plantd panels into its new Clique Luxe bench collection, designed by Mario Ruiz.

It is a meaningful first step into a market where structural performance, design flexibility, sourcing simplicity, and sustainability all matter.

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Why Furniture Is a Natural Next Category

Homebuilding remains Plantd’s first major market because buildings are one of the largest sources of global carbon emissions, and structural panels are used at massive scale. But from the beginning, our vision has been bigger than a single product or category.

We are building a material platform.

Furniture is a natural extension of that platform because many of the same requirements show up in a different form. Furniture makers need materials that are strong, precise, durable, reliable, and easy to work with. They also face real sourcing complexity.

A single manufacturer may use plywood for structural applications, OSB for lower-cost structural needs, MDF or HDF where smooth edges and detailed finishing matter, and other engineered wood products across different parts of a product line.

Plantd panels have the potential to simplify that picture.

By offering strength, consistency, and workability in a single panel made from fast-growing perennial grass, Plantd can help furniture manufacturers reduce material complexity while advancing lower-carbon product design.

As Nate Brown, Plantd’s Head of Business Development, put it in today’s announcement:

Furniture manufacturers typically juggle multiple engineered wood products like plywood for structural applications, OSB for lower-cost structural uses, MDF or HDF where clean edges and fine detailing matter. A single Plantd panel can potentially deliver performance across all those use cases. That simplifies sourcing, reduces supply chain complexity, and does it all with a material that’s innovative, American-made, and designed for carbon negativity.

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A Partnership Built Around Practical Innovation

Studio TK’s Clique Luxe collection is the newest addition to its Clique Bench series. The collection features enhanced seat and back cushioning, tailored tufting, and a warmer visual presence for meeting rooms, cafés, lobbies, and collaborative spaces.

Plantd panels are being used as primary structural components inside the collection.

That detail matters. This is not a decorative sustainability story or a symbolic material swap. It is Plantd’s panel being used where performance counts.

Studio TK’s work is rooted in helping designers create social spaces that support choice, connection, community, well-being, and productivity. Their decision to incorporate Plantd’s material reflects a broader shift across commercial interiors: sustainability is no longer a side consideration. It is becoming part of how products are specified, built, and evaluated.

Koorosh Sharghi, President at Studio TK, said it well:

Partnering with companies like Plantd lets us push the boundaries of innovation in a practical way by blending high performance materials with truly sustainable, thoughtful design. It’s through this kind of collaboration that we can support designers in creating spaces that not only function beautifully, but also reflect a deeper commitment to people and the planet.

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Growing the Mission, Category by Category

For Plantd, expanding into furniture is not a departure from our original mission. It is another expression of it.

We started with homebuilding because the opportunity was large, urgent, and technically demanding. To replace traditional structural panels, our product had to meet the expectations of builders, manufacturers, and one of the most cost-sensitive industries in the country.

That same discipline now applies to furniture.

The goal is not simply to make a greener panel. The goal is to make a better material that fits into existing manufacturing systems, performs across demanding use cases, and helps more industries move toward carbon-negative products without compromising on quality, cost, or scale.

As Plantd CEO and co-founder Nathan Silvernail said:

Furniture is a natural next step. The same properties that make our panels better for builders make them compelling for furniture makers. This is how we grow the mission category by category.

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From the Field to the Factory to the Finished Product

Plantd’s panels begin with fast-growing perennial grass cultivated through our vertically integrated agricultural model. That grass is transformed into high-performance panels using advanced production technology developed by our team.

The result is a durable material designed for demanding structural applications, made through a system that rethinks both the feedstock and the factory.

With Studio TK’s Clique Luxe bench collection, that material now becomes part of the built environment in a new way: not only behind walls or beneath roofs, but in the furniture people use every day.

It is a small physical shift with a much larger implication.

Plantd’s material platform can serve more than one industry. It can move across categories where performance, affordability, and sustainability all need to work together. And it can help manufacturers rethink what their products are made from without forcing them to start over.

That is the work ahead.

Homebuilding was the first category. Furniture is next. More are coming.

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