Lasting Experiences
A Good Choice
We have a long history of collaborating with producers and architects to develop unique pieces and spaces. Appearance is everything when it comes to furniture, and with all our products certified according to global requirements, you can rest assured that Elmo is good choice for both longevity and style.
Collaboration: Elmo X Teklan
In an exciting development for the iconic Elmonordic collection, renowned colour expert Tekla Evelina Severin — better known as Teklan — has thoughtfully curated and revitalised its colour palette. Known for her bold gestures and masterful sense of colour, Teklan has analysed the existing 30 hues, carefully updating 20 while retaining a foundation of ten timeless neutrals, primarily within greys, beiges, and browns.
“I often describe it as flirty and dirty, capturing my affinity for gentle pastels that still possess an edge.”
We are the House of Colour
When it Comes to Leather
Striking colours is one of our main traits when it comes to furniture design. We’re dedicated to bringing your visions to life and effortlessly develop and prototype your design with test collections and custom colour samples tailored to your desires and specifications.
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Design Stories
2025.12.05
Sancal CEO Esther Castaño López on the partnership with Elmo
“As an upholstery material, leather adds tactility, comfort and flexibility, adapting naturally to the shapes of our designs.”
2026.04.08
Working Confidently with Colour Through Material
In spatial design, colour is often treated as a visual layer — added late, or softened to ensure broad acceptance. In material-driven environments, it becomes something more tangible: a tool for shaping atmosphere and emotional response.
2025.09.26
Poltronova: Icons Upholstered for Generations
This October, Elmo’s Madrid showroom hosts a rare exhibition of Italian design history. To mark the occasion, we sat down with Roberta Meloni, CEO of Poltronova.
2026.03.24
Stone Designs: Leather Giving Each Piece a Distinct Personality
For more than three decades, the Madrid-based studio Stone Designs has collaborated with international brands across furniture, lighting and product design. Founded by Cutu Mazuelos and Eva Prego, the studio has built a reputation for creating objects with character — pieces that are approachable, playful and designed to connect with people on an emotional level.
2025.03.31
Matre: Reviving Craft, Sustaining Legacy
In the Norwegian fjords, a new design company is bringing timeless furniture back to life with purpose and precision. Their ambition? To create honest, lasting furniture made in Norway, designed to live for generations.
Sustainability
Empowering our Customers
with Sustainable Solutions
Sustainability is at the center of everything we do, and it’s been our highest priority since the beginning of the 1980’s. We can’t stress it enough. We facilitate a modern production process with people that are genuinely passionate about leather. Our biological Water Treatment Plant is a game changer for the tanning industry. With the plant, we drive the whole industry towards water-based coatings while also pioneering discharge water purification.
“Embrace the longevity and allure of leather with its natural durability and graceful aging process, makes it outstanding from other surface materials. When you choose Elmo, you choose a sustainable leather that stands the test of time.”
News
Clean Water Tanning
Making Wastewater into Drinking Water
Our goal goes beyond producing the best leather in the world, we also aim to generate the cleanest wastewater in the world. Our optimized biological wastewater treatment plant sets an industry benchmark for purifying wastewater generated during the tanning process. Employing our innovative clean water tanning technology allows us to borrow and return water from the nearby river Ätran, rather than consuming. In addition, we are committed to supporting WaterAid in their mission to provide safe drinking water to communities worldwide.
We use water from nearby river Ätran. Purified almost to perfection with several parameters pushing 100%, it empowers Elmo the position as the obvious industry benchmark. Downstream, a regional cleaning facility filters the water, supplying cities on the Swedish West Coast with clean drinking water. Established in 2005, our biological waste water treatment plant is optimized to manage waste water from our tanning process, enabling waste water purification at an industry benchmark level. The plant and its innovated technology received honourable citation by the EU LIFE-Environment programme “the new waste water treatment technology also gives better results than the current best available techniques (BATs) for the tannery sector”. Clean water tanning technology enables us to borrow water instead of consuming it.
Elmo Supports Wateraid
In order to extend our pursuit of good quality water resources for everyone regardless of geographic location, Elmo supports WaterAid and the quest to facilitate safe water for everyone, everywhere.