Mater

Mater is a Danish furniture and lighting company founded in Copenhagen in 2006 by Henrik Marstrand, and still based in the city, at Glentevej in Copenhagen NV. From the start it has worked with waste as its raw material, developing pieces with established and emerging designers, craftspeople and partners, and using FSC-certified wood in selected products since its first years.

Its central material is Matek, a composite made from industrial waste streams, including surplus plastic from the production of Arla school milk cartons, which can be reprocessed again and again. That has produced the Ocean Collection from recycled beer kegs in 2021, a take-back scheme in 2022 that returns Matek furniture for recycling into new pieces, and a first lighting collection in the material, Terra, in 2025. The 20-year anniversary piece is a Matek desk.