Penadés Office has designed Uprooted, a furniture collection made exclusively with Spanish olive tree roots.

Uprooted explores the complexities but also the new possibilities of the olive oil industry in Spain.

The first outcome of this ongoing 10-year project investigates the potential of the part of the tree that grows below the ground (roots) instead of the one above (trunk).

The research face of the project uncovered the extreme industrialisation of olive trees, particularly the shift from traditional manual olive harvesting to super-intensive methods.

In this modern approach, trucks grab and shake the trees, but a minimum distance of five to seven metres between olive trees is necessary to operate around them.

This project has been longlisted in the collectible design category of Dezeen Awards 2025.

Studio: Penadés Office
Project: Uprooted