The specialty of refre is to work at the border of the oldschool and the modern. Refre’s recipe is a compound process: collecting, renovating, transforming, constructing, designing. Most of the furniture offered are upcycled items, i.e. once worn-out, disused objects that have been transformed in a creative way. “New” elements used when finishing the furniture are secondhand, too (for example MDF table tops from postal waste). The furniture is renovated by the owner and by local artisans from the region of Mazovia, largely with the use of substances that are more friendly to the environment (e.g. water-based paints and varnishes).