MATERIA is a design studio based in New England that focuses on crafting furniture, lighting and objects that amplify the inherent beauty found in raw, elegant materials such as stone, brass, calfskin, parchment, steel, porcelain and wood.

Since its inception in 2009, MATERIA has maintained a core ethos that prioritizes the handmade, and has fostered a talented group of New York and New England based artisans to support in their creative process. Drawing from their combined backgrounds in choreography, fashion, landscape design and woodworking, owners Megan Sommerville and Matt Ensner have developed an intuitive and responsive visual language that is at once organic and refined.

Moving the studio’s creative center from New York to the Farm Coast of Massachusetts where the co-owners now live, has spawned a new era at MATERIA; one focused on craft, materials research and entirely new métiers, including the introduction of MATERI(A)NTIQUES and the forthcoming MATERIA MARINE.

Selected by our co-owners and reflecting their often irreverent taste in vintage and antique objects, our curation of antique items is meant to be at once refined and accessible, and is sourced without regard to provenance; Megan and Matt quite simply purchase what they love.

Likewise, a tour of the residential and gallery spaces that Megan and Matt have designed together reveals a visual thread connecting their pasts and future; antique items collected from their travels or inherited from their beloved grandparents, reappear in newly imagined vignettes alongside MATERIA’s newest furniture and lighting collections and archival work, underscoring their belief in the accumulated and collected.

Opening in summer 2026, MATERIA’s newest space centers their creative practice on the picturesque coast of New England and reflects the choice to prioritize creative generation as the foundation of their studio’s future in product development, interiors, collectible design and the unique and human-made.

PHOTOGRAPHY: MATERIA DESIGNS, ANGELA HAU, EMMA TUCCILLO , NICOLE FRANZEN, BLACK & STEIL