Most of us don't think twice about the materials surrounding us. The lamp on our bedside table. The pan we cook with every morning. The sheets we sleep in for a third of our lives.

But these everyday objects matter more than we realise. Synthetic materials release VOCs. Plastics leach endocrine disruptors into our food and air. Cheap metals corrode and contaminate. Fast furniture is designed to be replaced, not to last.We started StoreCORE because we couldn't find a single place that took materials seriously - where every product was chosen not just for how it looks, but for what it's made from and how it affects the people using it.