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.
