about matteria

good design = eco-smart materials

Matteria is a new version shop presenting a collection of objects for living made as sustainable as possible. Matteria is the place to be if you are looking to adorn your home, get inspired or find a gift!

Matteria is serving as an international communication channel and search engine in subjects relating to eco-smart and delightful design and services.

Matteria encourages you to be free to bloom your ideas and find impressive gems in all that stuff.

We take care in selecting products following smart Matteria criteria:

- charming functional design
- low or no toxicity
- imaginative reuse of reclaimed materials
- materials from renewable sources
- recycled / recyclable
- organic
- biodegradable
- sustainably grown
- energy efficient
- ethically produced

About Matteria

Matteria is the living story of two friends with different backgrounds, designer Monica and design management consultant Anu, coming together with the shared ideal of giving light to products made of ecological materials.

After investigating in the field through internet and by networking with journalists and other eco-design activists they found that good product concepts existed as well as the potential market for them, but lacked an efficient retail channel in Europe.

Anu Suominen:
Graduated from Turku School of Economics (FI), and moved to Barcelona in 2002 to work in marketing for Polar Electro. She returned to Finland in 2005 to complete a Masters in design management. She started a company called CONANU, coordinating design management projects for companies with the desire to reach full potential from their industrial design products.

Monica Potvin:
Shortly after graduating from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) in interior design, she created the company FABRIQUE in 2001, a New York City firm where core activities derived from high-end residential design, complemented by commercial contracts such as restaurants and night clubs. Now based in Barcelona since 2004, has since received a masters in urbanism from the Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña and further professional activities consist mainly in sustainable design and development.