About Silentia

From Road Noise to Hospital Rooms

“Should we start a business?” When Per put that question to his sons, Örjan and Dag, he set something in motion that none of them could have predicted.

The brothers started out with road noise barriers, structures built to bring quiet to busy roadsides. The work gave the company its name: Silentia, born from the idea of silence and calm.

Per’s second wife, Elisabeth, was a nurse. Day after day, she watched how poorly hospital curtains served patients and staff alike. “There has to be something better than curtains,” she said. A simple observation, made by someone close to home, and it pointed the way forward.

That insight reshaped the company. Silentia turned toward healthcare, carrying the same Swedish instinct for clean design and honest function into a new purpose: giving patients genuine privacy and dignity. The result was the original hospital screen, the first of its kind.

More than three decades later, that’s still what we do. Rooted in Swedish heritage, our approach unites clean aesthetics, simplicity, and function, and it has made us the leading alternative to privacy curtains the world over.