tesseraux+partner

“We need symmetry. And I won’t accept capriciousness in design.”

Dominik Tesseraux, born in 1966 in Bensheim, Germany, lived and worked in Potsdam. After apprenticing to become a furniture maker and studying design in Darmstadt, he was employed at various renowned German design studios. In 2001 he established tesseraux+partner. That same year he decided to be self-employed, initially as a ‘one-man show in his own four digs’. Today, he works with four others in a brick-built shed, once a coach house, in Potsdam.

Behind the Lines:

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LUX OVAL COUTURE

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Sieger Design

“Knowing that there’s in-depth research, complex analyses and intensive discussions hidden behind an unmistakeable design is what makes our work fascinating. Even at the drafting stage, we’re already thinking carefully about the individual manufacturing processes, the processing form and environmental challenges, without ever taking our eye off the look.”

Christian and Michael Sieger are the sons of architect and product designer Dieter Sieger. In 1964 he founded Sieger Design, which was one of the first in Germany to discover what it meant to treat the bath as a place for premium design. Dieter Sieger was led to bath and product design from shipbuilding. In 2003 Dieter Sieger retired from managing his company and turned the management over to his sons, who expanded the product range to include crockery, apparel and furniture. Nevertheless, most of their prizes were awarded for bath designs.

schmiddem design

“What we need are products tailored to the users that concentrate on what’s essential.”

After apprenticing to become a furniture maker, Jochen Schmiddem studied painting, sculpture and product design. Between 1990 and 1997 he worked at various international studios. Then in 1997 he set up his own studio in Berlin. Berlin offers Jochen Schmiddem a never-ending stream of inspiration and ideas for his work. These are crucial factors for turning today’s utopia into tomorrow’s reality. The studio is situated in the “Old Centre” of Berlin, a five minute’s walk from the Ku’damm. Here projects are reworked to include redesign and innovative redevelopment as well as visionary concepts and studies for different companies.

Barber Osgerby

Barber Osgerby is a London-based industrial design studio founded in 1996 by British designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby and is now one of the most renowned contemporary design studios in the world. The design studio's approach is experimental, exploring other materialities and colours. This results in solutions that are closely related to industrial processes and new technologies. Works by Barber Osgerby can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute in Chicago, among others. The studio's works have been awarded numerous international prizes.

Barber Osgerby behind the line: SUNO