Expanded Black Cork for a sustainable future.

Celebrating 10 years of design at SOFALCA at Maison & Objet Paris 2024

We extend our thanks to our visitors, partners, and press for joining us in commemorating this special year. As Maison & Objet marks its 30th anniversary, we also celebrate the 10-year journey of our Blackcork brand. A decade of design where creativity begets creativity.
Proudly manufactured in Portugal, using Portuguese expanded black cork, we are dedicated to delivering extraordinary and sustainable pieces that define the path for a creative and innovative future. We take pride in a decade committed to sustainability, innovatively using cork. Over the past ten years, we’ve infused our work with a passion for detail, authenticity, minimalism and beauty. We continue to shape the future of Portuguese design with our unique interpretation of expanded black cork, transforming it from a simple material into a timeless creative expression.

” 10 years have passed since the assumption of what needed to be done the most. Differently.
…”that cork nobody wanted…” said Toni Grilo, ended up proving itself to be a hidden treasure a “dream come to true”. Now celebrating 10 years of existence and creating memories, and always thankful for it, we have perceived a whole new world of enormous innovation, creativity and even provocation. Sofalca, with its creative people, Toni Grilo, first with Blackcork, raised the need to improve the product to work as furniture, but most of all to believe in Expanded Cork, Le Brimet  brought something that hadn’t been thought of, never imagined by Gencork before, and transformed our mind, our vision, until  10 years after, we reached the top and we reached artificial intelligence. Sofalca renewed itself, and it continues to renew itself every day and transforms an “old” centuries-old super-product into the future, today.
Creativity generates creativity, the people behind the product, the wow-factor to which no-one turns a blind eye,  are committed to keeping on making their customer’s dreams possible. “
 Paulo Estrada Sofalca´s CEO