Until mid-August we are showing the works of the Dutch artist Elly Dijkshoorn in our studio gallery. We have curated an exclusive selection of Èlly's paintings and collages. Elly describes her work as a process that lasts for years. Her works emerge in layers of coverage and discovery.
Please contact us for further information and prices for the individual works.
There's good news! We are now offering an Interior consultation class on our website. Inspired by our very esteemed colleague Laura from Atelier Karasinski, we have worked out a way for you to use our support in planning your own rooms quickly and easily. The 1:1 sessions with us are designed to inspire you and help you rethink your current interior design. You can expect a 50-minute online consultation that is all about clarifying your interior design questions. The interior design consulting course can be booked for just €300 plus VAT per course. With this offer, your personal interior designer is easily available to you online, wherever you are! We have a mini shop system on our website through which the course can be easily booked online. We look forward to supporting you with advice and support and to creating your feel-good spaces together.
The courses can take place in both German and English.
This project is particularly close to our hearts. The family, who are fulfilling their dream of having a second home in the country, lives mainly in Berlin. When they commissioned us, we noticed how much their wishes and needs coincided with ours and that they had the same goal with their house as we did with our house in the country. The desire for peace, nature and a place where you can just “be” as a family unites us. For us, the division between city and country is a logical consequence of our current social and economic situation and the current zeitgeist. It is almost no longer possible to live “just” in the city or “just” in the country. In the city you go crazy and in the country the structures that are still important - especially for a young family - are missing. So we often feel torn between the lure of Bullerbü typical country life and the culture and good structures of the city. However, you don't always have to choose and in our opinion “both” is exactly the right choice. For all family members. For the Waldwiesen project, we wanted to create a very calm and grounded atmosphere and let the surrounding nature take center stage. The garden that surrounds the house is huge and is bordered by a stream. An absolutely gorgeous landscape, full of fruit trees and lilac bushes. The large windows that the architecture already brought with it - designed by Atelier ST - set the tone. The ground floor should be the most important and central room. The bedrooms and the main bathroom are located on the upper two floors. The ground floor should be an open family space that can easily adapt to everyone's different needs. The kitchen is the heart of this room. The owner of the house likes to cook a lot. We wanted the kitchen to be clear, but not cool. The current stainless steel trend suited us. However, we wanted to create a design counterpoint with the striped tiles. This should give the kitchen its own, warm and special touch. The project is still being implemented. Little by little and with a lot of initiative, the two of them are rebuilding their dream in the countryside. That too unites us. Time is also a good guide when building. Many good solutions only come about through observation, experience and testing. We look forward to taking you further through this and our project. There is something that we are currently working on and that has been a very big wish of ours for several years. We really hope to be able to tell you more about this soon.
Many thanks again to AD Germany and Condé Nast for choosing our studio among the AD 100 for 2024! We are very proud of this nomination! Thank you also for the invitation to the accompanying event in Berlin at the very impressing Feuerle collection! It was a wonderful evening!
Thank you AD! Now here we are again, among all the other 99 incredibly creative, unique and successful designers and one of 100! One of 100 most important designers of the year 2024 selected by AD Magazine worldwide. We are so grateful and full of joy! If we think back to 2013, when we founded our studio, then it all seemed so far away and yet it was always one of our goals! We always wanted to make it to AD. And now we made it again for the second time! WOW! Thank you Felix, thank you Leonie, thank to all the great and really incredibly loving and hard-working employees of AD Germany! And thanks to our clients again, who always believed in us and our ideas and have placed their trust in us, thanks to our colleagues- especially to our friend Anne Kaden,with whom we realized a wonderfully poetic and personal project- who have inspired us and with whom we can always exchange ideas on an equal footing. Thanks to all the people who made this possible! We are going into a new year with pride and good cheer! AD 100- with us! Terrific!
This year has been a very challenging and unstable year. A lot has happened - professionally and privately. And it is precisely in this strange and difficult year that we are celebrating our 10th anniversary! This is another reason for us to look more closely at the question of what the task of interior design actually is and therefore the task for us interior designers. We observe and analyze many projects by other interior designers around the world and are increasingly realizing that these projects are often extensions of the manufacturer, the industry. Only a few examples show that in interior design - and I'm talking primarily about the private sector - reference and consideration is made to the people behind them. Unfortunately, it is often about trends and the latest products that are integrated into the projects. Striking projects are often created that are easy to market. But do the residents and users of the rooms really feel comfortable with it? Here too, however, we see the trend that users are all too often guided by media and often end up no longer knowing what they really need and want. A not entirely unimportant development for our future. Not just in an urban development context. After all, interior design touches us deep down and therefore has a direct impact on our psyche. With our exhibition last year for the AD in Berlin, we already tried to address and clarify part of this complex effect. We believe that the more we surround ourselves with artificial and machine-made things, the more dissatisfied our inner being becomes. The balance between us as humans - of natural origin - and an almost artificial environment becomes imbalanced. We're not just talking about plastic surfaces here, but also about machine- and computer-made building materials. And we ask ourselves the question: Why are we so anxious to give everything away? Why do we rationalize ourselves and our abilities away? Isn't the meaning of life in creating something with your own hands? Wouldn't our job as interior designers be to create a natural environment in which the user can be creative? An environment that inspires and that is in some way “unfinished”? No showroom, no manufacturer concept that is currently in vogue. An ambience filled with memories, a pinch of chaos, art and the anticipation of something new. This is our idea of good interior design. In addition, we see our task as interior designers as being to pay even more attention to what was in the past and still works well today, given the much-discussed and often misinterpreted sustainability. This ranges from building materials such as wood and clay to furniture that has already been produced and therefore no longer wastes energy and resources. When we think about and analyze our own way of working, we find that we are most attracted to interiors that have history. Not just in terms of architecture, but also in terms of interior design. This is not a plea for nostalgia, but a call to appreciate what is already there more and to accept and learn to love it with all its supposed flaws, which in our eyes represent much more patina and human traces.
For us, many inquiries are too much about “wanting to have” and “imitating”. We would like to encourage our customers to design their own personal environment with us. Of course, beautiful contemporary furniture isn't out of the question here, but that's ultimately not the point. For us, it's much more about our own convictions and the will to not just imitate something that manufacturers and the media show us, but to create our very own and personal atmosphere. Of course, in a certain respect this also requires the client to have unrestricted trust in us. Of course, good interiors always develop over time - there are pieces of furniture that are inherited or acquired while traveling. Suddenly you can afford art because you have a good job. And that's exactly how it should be. Designing rooms is not a static snapshot. It should be life and a mirror of our own lives. Or rather, what makes us happy and inspires us in life. In every sense. Living interiors inspire us far more than visiting trade fairs. Our thoughts on interior design apply on an even larger scale to architecture and interior design in the public sector. When we look at “modern” kindergartens, hospitals, community centers and the like, we are always disillusioned to see how lifeless and uninvolved these spaces are. This needs to be urgently changed in the future. This is the task that we see as ours in interior design. We have been thinking about the relationship and interaction between people and space for 10 years now. We observe, research, read and try things out. We want to know what we can do to make interior design for people and not for industry. We don't want living machines and concepts that are imposed on others, but rather atmospheres that open the soul and are not alien to the user - even if they bear our signature. We hope to be able to explore a lot more in this broad field and look forward to new and challenging projects.
We are very proud and happy that our project “Hotel Schloss Teutschenthal” has been nominated for “The Most Beautiful Restaurants, Hotels and Bars 2024” and that this project will be presented in detail in Callwey’s publication.
Now it remains exciting to see who the winners will be in March 2024. Until then we have to be patient...
We would like to introduce you to our new project in the USA, which we are working on together with Thomas Phifer. The illustration shows the house and the beautiful and unique nature that surrounds the house. The house itself is designed by Thomas Phifer and blends gently into the landscape. It hovers over her and gives the resident the feeling of tiptoeing across a wide meadow. The house opens on both sides with several large windows. Mountains and forests are absorbed and penetrate deep into the interior of the house... we are very much looking forward to the task of designing an interior that supports the archaic architecture and at the same time offers the surrounding nature a stage. A wonderfully poetic project lies ahead of us...
image credit: Thomas Phifer and Partners
We would like to thank the renowned architectural office NIDUS for the invitation to the exhibition "Das Haus im Buch" in the NIDUS Architecture Gallery in Düsseldorf. The well-known architect Annelen Schmidt-Vollenbroich and her partner Ana Vollenbroich invited 100 people from the fields of architecture, design and art to make their personal favorite book about architecture available as an original for this diverse exhibition. Also a brief statement of what makes this book so special.
The exhibition is being shown in cooperation with Oliver Jahn, design journalist, consultant and long-time editor-in-chief of AD Architectural Digest, at the Nidus Kosmos architecture gallery in Düsseldorf.
image: NIDUS
Many thanks again to AD Germany and Condé Nast for choosing our studio among the AD 100 for 2023! We are very proud of this nomination! Thank you also for the invitation to the accompanying event in Munich! It was a wonderful evening!
Thank you AD! Now here we are, among all the other 99 incredibly creative, unique and successful designers and one of 100! One of 100 most important designers of the year 2023 selected by AD Magazine worldwide. We are so grateful and full of joy! If we think back to 2013, when we founded our studio, then it all seemed so far away and yet it was always one of our goals! We always wanted to make it to AD. And now this great honor actually coincides with our 10th anniversary - what a wonderful coincidence! Thank you Oliver, thank you to all the great and really incredibly loving and hard-working employees of AD Germany! And thanks to our clients, who always believed in us and our ideas and have placed their trust in us, thanks to our colleagues, who have inspired us and with whom we can always exchange ideas on an equal footing. Thanks to all the people who made this possible! We are going into a new year with pride and good cheer! AD 100- with us! Terrific!
We had a very great time at the AD Germany Event “AD Interior- new perspectives”, where we were invited to show our ideas of contemporary interior design. Thanks for having us!
Photo credit: René Lohse für AD Germany
On the occasion of the AD Germany Magazine exhibition in the Kronprinzenpalais in Berlin, we developed our own table collection together with the silversmith and jewelery artist Anne Kaden. The collection “the delicate beauty of everyday life” will be on display in Berlin from October 21st to October 23rd together with other objects and furniture. Under the concept title "being rooted" we are showing a selection of contemporary art and objects that we are staging in a poetic, classically stylish and at the same time modern interior. Our philosophy should be illustrated here in a pointed way and made tangible.
We look forward to numerous visitors who can also immerse themselves in the worlds of eleven other great colleagues!
Special thanks to all artists and manufacturers who have supported us with their objects and artworks and their loving nature:
Anne Kaden Alessandra Taccia Cécile Daladier Maddalena Selvini Sarah Pschorn OODD studios CENTA Anna Fiedler Margit Jäschke Atelier Morelli Sarah Espeute A.Petersen Trizo21 PierreFrey Paris ErtlundZull
We are very proud about our recognition award from Callwey, Schöner Wohnen and BdIA and the beautiful words of Ester Bruzkus about our work! THANK YOU!
Photo credit of the event: Stefan Bösl/Callwey
We are very proud of our invitation from AD Magazine to the “AD Interior- new perspectives” exhibition. Twelve ( interior ) architects selected by AD Magazine will present their new approaches and contributions to the field of interior and design. We very much hope that you will enjoy and be inspired by our contribution!
The first rooms in the Hotel Schloss Teutschenthal have now been renovated and we are very happy to show you the first photos of our commercial interior project. We very much look forward to the further renovation of this beautiful mansion!
As part of the "Kitchen Design Week" we spoke to Architonic about modern-day kitchens and their changing use. We also share our experiences of designing kitchens and share our perspective on the need to go back to the simple and basic things in a kitchen
We are very honoured being nominated again for the Best of Interior Award 2022. Fingers crossed!
We are very pleased to have been voted third place in the Hall of Fame of Callwey Verlag among well-known architects. Thank you very much!
We are very proud of our Residential Interior Project in Brooklyn, NYC, which we were able to realize in collaboration with Hatchet. None other than Matthew Williams captured the wonderful pictures and thus the atmosphere that reigns in our clients' homes. Soon more on our website!
