Brand · Danish sustainable design
Mater outdoor furniture
Workshop · Copenhagen, Denmark
Material · Recycled plastic & FSC wood
Designer · Jørgen and Nanna Ditzel (Ocean)
About Mater
The Copenhagen house that re-issued Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel's 1955 Ocean chair in recycled household plastic. Mater (Latin for "mother") operates on a single principle: every object should be made from waste material that would otherwise end up in landfill, then designed to be disassembled and recycled again at end-of-life. The outdoor catalog is small and deliberate, the Ditzel Ocean lounge in its original two-person and individual configurations, plus the Lounge table, every piece carrying full material-traceability documentation. Compare with our Muuto, Skagerak and Nanimarquina catalogs for adjacent specs.
Official site: materdesign.com
Current catalog · 3 collections of note
Materials & craft
A single materials principle: every component from waste, every component disassemblable.
Specifier resources written for US trade buyers, designers, and architects working with European outdoor furniture.
Decision matrix, lifecycle cost, and FSC sourcing.
Brand positioningSide-by-side specifier comparison and hybrid path.
CertificationHow to verify FSC certificates and what to ask for.
FabricSpecifier sheets, hospitality contract grades, COM workflow.
Brand vs brandWhen to specify each, when to specify both.
ProcurementTrade buyer workflow from brief to install.
