Mattiazzi is an Italian company, internationally known for producing high-quality wooden furniture. It is still family-run, with a staff of only 30 employees, but uses industrial production, conducted ethically and consciously. The company responds quickly to changes in the market, and adapts to new trends, thanks to the experiments of the best-known designers, with whom it collaborates. Mattiazzi was founded in 1979 by brothers Nevio and Fabiano Mattiazzi, who were fascinated by woodworking, which they had learned in their uncle's factory, for which they had worked since they were teenagers, in that area of northeastern Italy known as "the chair triangle." In the early years, handcrafting wooden chairs was for other companies, but in 2009 they decided to start their own collection, inviting designer Nitzan Cohen to collaborate. Since then the brand has created more than 25 collections, including chairs, tables, stools, and benches, and continues to collaborate steadily with some of the most renowned designers on the international scene.
Mattiazzi's wooden furniture, from chairs to accessories
Initially led by designer Nitzan Cohen, the brand's artistic director until 2015, and joined shortly thereafter by Florian Lambl as co-director, and then continuing as sole artistic director from 2015 to 2018, the company over the years has proven its ability to keep up with the times. Production is now industrialized and uses new technologies, such as 3D scanning or robotic milling. From 2009 to the present, Mattiazzi has produced some of the most iconic chairs, starting with the Branca chair by London-based duo Sam Hecht and Kim Colin, who served as artistic directors of the brand from 2018 to 2021. The Branca chair was made using a CNC milling machine, an entirely new and pioneering technology for the time. Primo by Konstantin Grcic embodies the archetypal chair and is characterized by a study of reductive formalism. Chiaro by Leon Ransmeier has a fluidity that makes it visually comfortable beyond its seemingly ordinary appearance. Quindici, by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, available as an armchair and chaise longue, is a minimal and compact collection. In addition to furniture, Mattiazzi also produces a series of small objects in solid wood, including a jewelry box, a bowl, and a bottle holder. From 2021 to the present, the artistic direction of the brand has passed to Konstantin Grcic, who works with Florian Böhm and Annahita Kamali to help develop the brand's visual identity and communication.
Mattiazzi: love of wood, respect for the environment
Wood is a natural and renewable material that remains "alive" even after being cut, dried and processed. Similarly, objects made of wood, both small and large, can last a long time if cared for and treated properly. The guiding principle that unites all Mattiazzi products is that of ethical and high-quality wood processing, starting from the sourcing of the raw material to the energy required for production. Almost all of the wood Mattiazzi uses comes from within a 200-kilometer radius. The factory-which since the late 1980s has been located in San Giovanni, one of the three towns that make up the chair triangle-runs almost exclusively on energy generated by solar panels installed in 2010. A biomass stove recycles waste energy that is used to heat the factory in winter. Each product is made with as little waste as possible, and the factory's air passes through a filter before it is released into the atmosphere to reduce CO2 emissions.
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