{"id":2680,"date":"2014-01-25T09:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T08:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/materia.se\/?page_id=2680"},"modified":"2021-04-13T13:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T12:57:56","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/materia.se\/en\/about-materia\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><big>Materia develops and manufactures design furniture and interior furnishings for creative meeting areas and dynamics organisations. From the very beginning, we have refused to make compromises. Our approach is characterized by innovative design with the user in the centre, this is how we think when we materialize ideas.<\/big><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Materia was set up in 1992 by Kersti Sandin and Lars B\u00fclow, both architects and industrial designers. The combination of innovative design philosophy with focus on the user and being uncompromising when selecting materials and manufacturing methods quickly lead to success. Today Materia is a part of the interior design group Kinnarps, and our meeting concepts and products are used all over the world. The following summarises our journey.<\/p>\n<p>1992 \u2013 Materia is set up in Stockholm.<br \/>\n1994 \u2013 Own production facility started in Tran\u00e5s.<br \/>\n1998 \u2013 Main office moves from Stockholm to Tran\u00e5s. &#8220;The blue factory&#8221; is also acquired.<br \/>\n2002 \u2013 More employees taken on and production facilities expanded with &#8220;the yellow factory&#8221; for assembly work and logistics.<br \/>\n2004 \u2013 Materia is acquired by Kinnarps and becomes an independent brand in the Group.<br \/>\n2008 \u2013 Inauguration of a new factory in H\u00f6ganloft in Tran\u00e5s. 7,500 square metres with production facilities, offices and showrooms.<br \/>\n2021 &#8211; All wood used in our furniture and interior furnishings is FSC\u00ae-certified<\/p>\n<p>We\u00b4re constantly growing, but never growing up.\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materia develops and manufactures design furniture and interior furnishings for creative meeting areas and dynamics organisations. From the very beginning, we have refused to make compromises. Our approach is characterized by innovative design with the user in the centre, this is how we think when we materialize ideas. Materia was set up in 1992 by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":8422,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2680","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materia.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materia.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materia.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materia.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materia.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/materia.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56608,"href":"https:\/\/materia.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2680\/revisions\/56608"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materia.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materia.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}