Sonian is a cooperative focusing on the use of local wood in architecture and design, harvesting local wood from the Sonian forest in Brussels, a woodworking studio transforming that produces for clients and other designers, and a design studio creating their own bespoke furniture.

The local trees they use have been cut down for safety, to develop the forest or to introduce other species in the face of climate change. The team processes the wood, distributes it, collaborates with designers and designs its own pieces in a circular manner.

Co-founders Benjamin Moncarey and Stephan Kampelmann have gathered around them a team of woodworkers and work with lumberjacks and sawmills, in a sustainable approach from the standing tree to the finished product.