Mater

Mater is a Copenhagen design house that treats waste as a material rather than a problem.

The Conscious series is the clearest statement of it: tabletops pressed from industrial and agricultural waste into a surface that reads like terrazzo and wears like stone. The Ocean range is moulded from reclaimed plastic, in colours that only that process gives you. Elsewhere the thinking is older and simpler, the Bowl Table and the Lily lounge table turned from solid wood, the Shade and Liuku pendants built from very few parts.

It is a short catalogue for a brand this well known. Dining chairs and tables, coffee and side tables, stools, a handful of pendants and an outdoor bench, and very little of it is filler.