Mattiazzi
Mattiazzi is an Italian wooden furniture manufacturer — founded in 1979 by brothers Nevio and Fabiano Mattiazzi as a wood workshop in San Giovanni al Natisone (Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia, north-east Italy), in the heart of the "chair triangle" — one of Italy's most renowned chair manufacturing centres. For thirty years Mattiazzi worked as a subcontractor for other brands, building an excellent reputation in complex woodworking. 2009 strategic turning point: Nevio Mattiazzi and Cristina Salvati (global sales and marketing director) decided to develop their own design brand. Guiding principle: exclusively natural materials; sustainably certified wood from FSC-certified forests; 200 km timber sourcing radius; chemical-free wood drying process; solar plant since 2010; biomass furnace for waste heat recovery; 8-axis CNC milling machines as craft tools.
First own product: He Said / She Said (Studio Nitzan Cohen). Icons: Branca Chair (Sam Hecht/Kim Colin, Industrial Facility, 2010 — robotic manufacturing and CNC milling), Osso (Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2011 — CNC sculpture), Medici (Konstantin Grcic, 2013), Clerici (Konstantin Grcic, 2015 — broad armrests, communal authority), Cugino (Konstantin Grcic, 2019), Zampa (Jasper Morrison, 2019), Primo (Konstantin Grcic, 2017), Chiaro (Leon Ransmeier), Quindici (Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec — armchair, chaise longue), Radice (Sam Hecht), Stelo (Industrial Facility — Windsor reinterpretation). Art directors 2018–2021: Sam Hecht & Kim Colin. Current design development: Studio OE (Lisa Ertel, Anne-Sophie Oberkrome), Marialaura Irvine. Small wood objects: jewellery box, bowl, bottle holder.
For architects and interior designers seeking for luxury residential, premium hospitality, corporate office and demanding international contract projects a family company founded in 1979 in San Giovanni al Natisone (Udine, Friuli) in the "chair triangle" and active since 2009 as an independent design brand that with 8-axis CNC milling machines as craft tools, FSC-certified timber from within 200 km, a chemical-free drying process and designer collaborations from Jasper Morrison, Konstantin Grcic, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and Industrial Facility — Mattiazzi has demonstrated with 8-axis CNC milling machines as craft tools and designer collaborations from Jasper Morrison to Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec that industrialised wood craftsmanship and design iconicity are not a contradiction: fully in-house produced, FSC-certified, from the chair triangle of Friuli.
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Mattiazzi
Mattiazzi is an Italian wooden furniture manufacturer — founded in 1979 by brothers Nevio and Fabiano Mattiazzi as a wood workshop in San Giovanni al Natisone (Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia, north-east Italy), in the heart of the "chair triangle" — one of Italy's most renowned chair manufacturing centres. For thirty years Mattiazzi worked as a subcontractor for other brands, building an excellent reputation in complex woodworking. 2009 strategic turning point: Nevio Mattiazzi and Cristina Salvati (global sales and marketing director) decided to develop their own design brand. Guiding principle: exclusively natural materials; sustainably certified wood from FSC-certified forests; 200 km timber sourcing radius; chemical-free wood drying process; solar plant since 2010; biomass furnace for waste heat recovery; 8-axis CNC milling machines as craft tools.
First own product: He Said / She Said (Studio Nitzan Cohen). Icons: Branca Chair (Sam Hecht/Kim Colin, Industrial Facility, 2010 — robotic manufacturing and CNC milling), Osso (Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2011 — CNC sculpture), Medici (Konstantin Grcic, 2013), Clerici (Konstantin Grcic, 2015 — broad armrests, communal authority), Cugino (Konstantin Grcic, 2019), Zampa (Jasper Morrison, 2019), Primo (Konstantin Grcic, 2017), Chiaro (Leon Ransmeier), Quindici (Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec — armchair, chaise longue), Radice (Sam Hecht), Stelo (Industrial Facility — Windsor reinterpretation). Art directors 2018–2021: Sam Hecht & Kim Colin. Current design development: Studio OE (Lisa Ertel, Anne-Sophie Oberkrome), Marialaura Irvine. Small wood objects: jewellery box, bowl, bottle holder.
For architects and interior designers seeking for luxury residential, premium hospitality, corporate office and demanding international contract projects a family company founded in 1979 in San Giovanni al Natisone (Udine, Friuli) in the "chair triangle" and active since 2009 as an independent design brand that with 8-axis CNC milling machines as craft tools, FSC-certified timber from within 200 km, a chemical-free drying process and designer collaborations from Jasper Morrison, Konstantin Grcic, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and Industrial Facility — Mattiazzi has demonstrated with 8-axis CNC milling machines as craft tools and designer collaborations from Jasper Morrison to Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec that industrialised wood craftsmanship and design iconicity are not a contradiction: fully in-house produced, FSC-certified, from the chair triangle of Friuli.