Aline Duerr
In 2018, her love for animals and the birth of her daughter led her to adopt a vegan lifestyle. She felt disconnected with her career and decided to stop promoting the use of any product or material derived from animals or based on animal cruelty. She organised public events such as ‘Nup the Cup Lunch’ and ‘Eggless Easter Brunch’ to fundraise for local animal rescues and to promote cruelty-free and vegan events to non-vegans. After a lot of personal research and studies, she rebranded her interior design studio to Vegan Interior Design and created an educational platform teaching international interior design students and established interior design businesses about how to include a fast growing conscious and vegan market into their customer base. To complement her online courses, Aline published a book called ‘Vegan Interior Design’ which has been an international success since its launch in 2020. The pivot from a small face-to-face service-based company to an educational platform enabled her to reach a much larger audience and create an incredible network and community within a very short time: to help designers all over the world progressing the vegan interior design movement and to reach non-vegan designers, students and ‘every day people’ by educating them with her book, courses and resources.
www.veganinteriordesign.com
How vegan is your home?
Do you know if the production of your wall paint caused pain to animals? Do you know why towels are not vegan? Do you think that ‘interior design’ is only something for people with lots of money? I will explain what vegan interior design is exactly, why it matters much more than most vegans realise, where animal products most likely still hide in people’s places without them knowing and how vegan design can easily be implemented for a healthy, cruelty-free and sustainable lifestyle anywhere – at no extra cost and with no compromises in quality and luxury. I will also point out where action is required in order to catch up with the vegan food and fashion movements and what we can all do on an individual basis to create change in the furniture and home products industry.
