Mat Island Chair 65cm Hemp and black metal - Normann Copenhagen

With innovation and circularity at its core, Mat is an exploration of how to create a contemporary shell chair with materials that have a lower environmental impact than the industry standard.

Designed by Danish design studio Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen, this new designer chair is the result of years of research and development. The shell of the Mat chair is innovatively made from hemp and eelgrass, a type of seaweed. Materials are the essence of design.

Not only do materials provide a more responsible product, they also play a key role in the design aesthetic, highlighting the natural beauty of the materials. With circularity and responsibility at its core, the Mat collection is designed for disassembly and recycling, ensuring that the components of the Mat chair can be recycled into new productions for a fully circular life cycle.

The Mat Chair collection features a hemp shell made using a uniquely developed compression process and mounted on powder-coated steel legs. The shell is made from a unique blend of 75% hemp fibres, while the remaining 25% is a specially developed recyclable bico binder. The Algues variant consists of 69% hemp fibres, 6% eelgrass (seaweed) and 25% binder. If returned to Normann Copenhagen at the end of their life, the shell and base can be recycled.