Arabesque

• virgin wool is a natural and renewable resource.
• virgin wool has a balancing effect on the indoor climate, as it can absorb up to approximately 30% of its own weight in moisture ohne feeling damp.
• virgin wool regulates temperature and creates a pleasant sense of comfort—warm in winter and balancing in summer.
• virgin wool improves room acoustics and significantly reduces impact noise and reverberation.
• virgin wool is durable and elastic; its fibers largely spring back after being compressed.
• virgin wool repels dirt thanks to its natural wool grease.
• virgin wool is electrostatically neutral and captures dust from the air.
• virgin wool is flame-retardant, making it suitable for demanding commercial spaces.
• virgin wool adds comfort and improves the quality of time spent on hard floors.

• Depending on the breed, sheep produce around 2–10 kg of raw wool per year.
• wool has been used as a textile fiber for over 10,000 years and is one of humanity’s oldest cultural fibers.
• High-quality virgin wool contains a natural fat (lanolin) that partially repels dirt and liquids.
• Around 1.1–1.2 million tons of sheep’s wool are produced worldwide each year. The main producers include China, Australia and New Zealand.
• The fineness of wool varies by origin from around 15 to over 40 microns.

The designer was born on April 4, 1964, in Fribourg and grew up in an environment strongly shaped by architecture: his parents ran an architecture firm, and from an early age he developed a feel for shapes, spaces, and materials. At first, his passion was automotive design, inspired by figures such as Pininfarina and Giorgetto Giugiaro.

A decisive turning point came, however, through the radical designs of the Memphis Group and the postmodern furniture of Trix and Robert Haussmann. This encounter fundamentally changed his perspective on design and led him to furniture design.

He began his training at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), where he received a thorough grounding in the tradition of Swiss “Good shape.” To engage more closely with international trends, he later transferred to the Art Center College of Design (Europe). An exchange semester in Los Angeles had a particular influence on him, introducing him to a more communicative, market-oriented design culture. Both influences—Swiss precision and international openness—continue to shape his approach to work.

After graduating in Product Design, he moved to Paris, where he initially worked with designer Andrée Putman and contributed to the Louvre’s signage project at the Anatome agency. He gained further formative experience in San Francisco, where he was fascinated by the cultural mix of Western and Asian influences.

In 1995, he finally opened his own studio in Zurich. Since then, he has worked primarily in furniture design, interior architecture, and exhibition design. For him, design is an interplay of shape, function, material, construction, and emotion—elements whose relative importance varies from project to project. Alongside this, he pursues experimental projects that allow him to explore his personal artistic interests.