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Locally made, globally trusted
DISCOVER LOCALIn a changing world where time, convenience and sustainability matter more than ever, we’re working with trusted local makers to produce select international designs under licence.
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IN STOCK COLLECTION
SHOP NOWA considered selection of pieces from our international partners and local makers. Designed to stay, these are the products we’ll keep coming back to, consistently available, thoughtfully chosen.
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A Quiet Hub for Focus and Recharge
READ MOREWorking with Chandler Architecture and Loreto, District helped bring to life a new hub designed specifically for the school’s teaching faculty.
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magical effect
DISCOVER MAEHWAInspired by the rhythm of blooming plum blossoms, the Maehwa Collection combines delicacy with intention. Sculptural forms and luminous light create pieces that feel both organic and refined, designed to bring quiet poetry into any space.
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Design Dialogues: SAM HECHT & KIM COLIN
With Stelo, their fifth collaboration with Mattiazzi, Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of Industrial Facility revisit the Windsor chair, reinterpreting its principles for today through Mattiazzi’s advanced woodworking techniques. In conversation with Konstantin Grcic, they describe a chair that balances familiarity with invention, designed for both the sitter and the space around it.
Konstantin Grcic: The new STELO chair has formal characteristics reminiscent of the Windsor chair. What was your particular interest in this historic model?
Sam Hecht: Indeed, STELO does play with history a bit. I’d say our interest is with the Windsor’s economic and adaptive model, which helped make it so prolific. It uses the ‘division of labour’ method, where each part of the chair is made in small batches by different craftspeople, and then brought together. The result is an ‘assembled’ aesthetic. Stelo adopts this ‘assemblage’ method, but capitalises on Mattiazzi’s specific techniques – that we have come to know over the years.
KG: The new chair is your fifth project for Mattiazzi. To what extent would you say that it continues your own story for Mattiazzi, which began fifteen years ago with the striking design of Branca? Or is STELO more about breaking new ground?
Kim Colin: All of our chairs stem from the nature of our curiosity – about the sourcing or behaviour of wood over time, about harnessing Mattiazzi’s special skills, and about the potential economy of structural innovation. But Stelo is different, because we’re looking back as well as forward: Stelo reinvests in a historic typology – in the roots of the Windsor version of the Captain’s Chair. Here we find something intriguing, worth exploring for how it can be shaped and made relevant for today. More than the sum of its parts.

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Louise Roe
Inspired by the shapes, stories, and essence of her surroundings, Louise Roe...