“Good furniture captures the essence—it doesn’t seek attention.”

I grew up in my father’s workshop.
From an early age, making was part of everyday life.
I have a degree in interior architecture.
I design and build furniture and objects shaped by use.
Rooted in material and surface.
Not decorative, but self-evident.
Made to stay.

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Interior:Furniture

"Design & Craft are inseparable. Together they create deeper understanding and meaning."

"Chissel, Hammer.... Brush!"

I gained experience in graphic design during my time as a texture painter for Hollywood films and television. During the pandemic, I fell deeply in love with lettering and traditional signpainting.

I began searching for historical books that teach the craft and techniques of this nearly lost art – displaced in many places by today’s cheap and replaceable vinyl lettering.

Since then, my heart still beats faster when I open a drawer and take out one of my „chisel-edged sable brushes“ to back up freshly „gold-leafed lettering“ or to contour the intricate design of a „Victorian glue-chipped glass sign“.

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Traditional:Signpainting

"A craft and an art too valuable to let fade."

“Oh. Sh**t. I got it!”

I jumped for joy. Three, two, one – it was mine.

For the price of a old bike, I had just acquired a classic: the Volkswagen Beetle of printing presses. An Heidelberg OHT.
Its nearly one-ton weight and the fact that the platen was wider than my front door gave me a slight feeling of unease. But then again – it was a Heidelberg “Windmill”.

For a full month, I dismantled the “little one” completely in order to get it through the door, and restored it down to the smallest detail.
For two days straight, I scraped dried ink from the ink fountain and learned the parts list almost by heart just to be able to put it back together.

Whenever I print with it now, listening to its heavy, rhythmic sigh – reminiscent of an aging dragon – I still find it astonishing that such engineering could function without a single electronic component.
And every time, I think back to that adventure.

I like to believe that a trace of it can be felt in every print.Perhaps.