About Mater

Founded in Copenhagen in 2006, Mater is a pioneering green-tech design brand with sustainability and circularity at its core. From the outset, the ambition was to inspire a global design audience and engage people in sustainable action. We use cutting-edge technology in production allowing us to transform waste materials into design furniture. Through collaboration with well-established and new design talents, we create timeless designs in a sustainable and responsible way.

As a company, we will never stand still. Mater is continuously committed to finding and developing new waste materials and techniques that allow us to create more from less. The future of the planet relies on circular solutions and green innovations, and that’s what we work for.


Henrik Marstrand, Founder

Our continuous journey to a more sustainable furniture production

  • Mater Logo

    Founded by Henrik Marstrand with an ambition to inspire the global design audience and engage people in sustainable thinking.

  • FSC Wood

    The use of FSC-certified wood in our products has been a given right from the start and we are mainly using FSC® wood in our production. In an FSC-certified forest, no more trees than the forest can reproduce are felled.

  • Mater Highstool

    Mater High Stool is launched. Today it's one of our most sold products and is a centerpiece in many hotels, bars and restaurants around the world. It's regarded as a New Danish Classic.

  • Aluminum Scraps

    Launch of the Mater High Stool in recycled aluminum. 70% of the aluminum comes from recycled old pipes, tubing and other aluminum waste melted and mixed with new material to obtain the silvery expression.

  • MangoWood Table

    We introduce the Bowl Table made of mango wood. Mango wood is a byproduct of an already thriving industry. When the trees stop bearing fruits, it's cut down, and a new one is planted. Harvesting the wood that was previously burnt or left to break down is a source of sustainable material.

  • Ocean waste

    We start using ocean waste for our outdoor series and injection moulded chairs. Old fishing nets from the ocean are collected, washed, shredded and made into pellets, also known as green plastic.

  • Ocean Chair

    We start using ocean waste for our outdoor series and injection moulded chairs. Old fishing nets from the ocean are collected, washed, shredded and made into pellets, also known as green plastic.

  • Matek

    In alliance with large corporations, Mater explores new technology that recycles industrial fibre and plastic waste. This results in five new unique patented materials under the name Matek®.

  • Tree

    The Ocean Collection is launched in a version of recycled beer kegs from Carlsberg. In line with the circular way of thinking, the OC2 Collection can be found in the outdoor area of Carlsberg's headquarters in Copenhagen.

  • Mater Takeback

    Introducing our Mater Takeback system. We offer to take all furniture made with Matek® back at the end of its life to recycle it into new furniture.

  • Metal Waste

    We incorporated e-waste (endof-life electronic appliances) in our Matek® production. E-waste is considered the fastest-growing waste stream in the world.

  • Biodegradeable waste

    Launch of our biodegradable Matek™ variant. Using biodegradable plastic with the Matek™ technology allows the Matek™ to be decomposable by living organisms in the same way as wood or any other natural material would.