About
At Eco Outdoor we work with inspiring architects, designers and builders to help bring their creative vision to life through materials. Working with nature, we find the highest-quality raw materials and craft them into beautiful surfaces and furniture that celebrate the imperfections, textures, and palette found in nature. Constant evolution, curiosity, and creativity sit at the heart of everything we do in our quest to inspire our clients to create incredible spaces and places.
Our People
We believe in what you want to create, and we’ll do whatever we can to help you create it. People are at the heart of all we do, and we love nothing more than finding the solution that works best for your project. We’re passionate about the materials we work with – their purpose and repurpose – and thanks to our direct relationships with quarries and suppliers, we know the expansive possibilities of our products. We are collaborators, critical thinkers, problem-solvers and challenge-embracers. If you’ve got a vision, come and talk to us.
Our Approach
When it comes to natural surfaces for architectural design, we’re obsessed. We celebrate nature’s bountiful materiality and the standard it sets for great design. Whatever your project needs, we’ll find a solution; we’re always innovating and developing products and formats to satisfy your design concept. We work directly with quarries around the world to provide a seamless customer experience. And we’re experts: it helps that we’ve been crafting with wonder every day for the last 25 years.
Our Story
It all began in 2000 when our founder, Ben Kerr, and business partner, Ross Eckersley, were working in the landscape design industry and couldn’t find the quality architectural materials they wanted to use. Seeing a gap in the market for more sophisticated, innovative and uniquely textured surfaces, they decided to create their own. We started selling pebbles off the back of a truck in Melbourne and 25 years on, have spread our wings from Australia, across ‘The Ditch’ to New Zealand and beyond to the United States. Everywhere we go, we find our tribe of people who love amazing design and architecture and want to collaborate with us.
25 Years Celebration
Time flies when you’re having fun and doing what you love. As a teenager, I didn’t dream about selling rocks! But natural materials and architecture have become a passion over the past 25 years. I’ve learned that great design has the power to evoke an emotional response in people. I feel the same way about materials and the role they play in achieving this. That’s why we describe what we do as ‘Crafted with Wonder’. When you work with the beautiful imperfections of nature, not against it, something remarkable happens. I feel incredibly lucky that I’ve been able to spend this time searching for materials, building relationships with our amazing clients and helping shape inspiring projects around the world. To celebrate, we’re sharing some of our favourite projects, collaborations and inventions from our first 25 years. We can’t wait to see what unfolds in the years ahead.
Our Showrooms
Sydney
7 Danks Street Waterloo NSW 2017
Melbourne
422 Burnley Street Richmond VIC 3121
Los Angeles
8719 Wilshire Blvd Beverly Hills CA 90211
Brisbane
9 Wandoo Street Fortitude Valley4006
Adelaide
13 College Rd Kent Town SA 5067
Perth
269 Stirling Highway Claremont WA 6010
Auckland
35a Normanby Road Mount Eden NZ 1024
Make an Enquiry
Our team is always available to support you via phone, email or face to face in your nearest showroom.