Inspiration

REFLECT AGAIN

Looking back at Zurich Design Weeks 2025
Mirrors are recurring motifs in the work of Trix and Robert Haussmann. They multiply spaces, shift perspectives, and make the boundary between surface and depth uncertain.

For Zurich Design Weeks 2025, Bureau Hindermann adopted this principle and transformed the Soeder Store in Zurich Main Station into a hall of mirrors for Ruckstuhl.

Under the title “WIEDER SPIEGELN,” the new Trix & Robert Haussmann Collection by Ruckstuhl was presented there for the first time.
Trix Haussmann and rug STRIPES

A Room of Mirrors

From the station passage, the view through an arched doorway already led to a column fragment from the “Lehrstück” series by Trix and Robert Haussmann. Reflective surfaces multiplied its shape, turning the object into a three-dimensional figure.

Inside, eight round mirrors formed a circle around STRIPE, a design by the Haussmanns from the 1980s. Laid out on a plinth, the black-and-white pattern revealed its perspective effect. The mirrors took up the play of illusion and repetition, multiplying the rug while also incorporating the main station’s historic architecture into the installation.

Anyone who stood in the middle or sat on the rug became part of this image.

“Communicating content through spatial atmosphere is more demanding than the media staging of logos or brand messages. The true art of spatial, purely analog staging lies in boldly responding to spatial conditions and historical origin, ohne seeming museum-like, while still remaining Instagrammable.”

Christoph Hindermann, Bureau Hindermann / Edition-H

Rediscover, rethink

“REFLECTING AGAIN” marked the return of designs that, in some cases, had existed for decades only in archives, drawings, and historical photographs.

The Trix & Robert Haussmann collection by Ruckstuhl was created in collaboration with EDITION-H and through personal exchanges with Trix Haussmann. Historical designs were reinterpreted and brought into the present as rugs.

This story continued beyond the Hall of Mirrors: With the Spacegrid Edition 2025, a large-scale tapestry with mirror inlays, Bureau Hindermann reinterpreted a 1986 Haussmann design for EDITION-H.

The installation thus brought together original and reinterpretation, rug and architecture, historical reference and contemporary design.

Tobias Maurer, Trix Haussmann, Christof Hindermann
Bureau Hindermann has succeeded in giving the launch of the Trix & Robert Haussmann collection by Ruckstuhl a fitting showcase at the Soeder Store in Zurich’s main train station. Adrian Berchtold, Managing Director Ruckstuhl aG

Two Awards for WIEDER SPIEGELN

One year later, the installation received two awards.

WIEDER SPIEGELN received the iF Design Award 2026 in the Interior Architecture discipline, Trade Fairs / Exhibitions category.

At XAVER Award 2026 the project received Silver in the “Best Efficiency Project” category - a category for projects that achieve a special spatial and communicative impact with targeted use of resources.

Both awards recognize a project that existed for just a few days yet tells a longer story: that of Trix and Robert Haussmann, of mirrors and illusions - and of designs that find a new place decades later.

WIEDER SPIEGELN
Ruckstuhl × Bureau Hindermann
Zurich Design Weeks 2025
Soeder Store, Zurich Main Station

21.09.2026
Inspiration Perspectives Perspective

Designer

Haussmann

Produkte

Stripes Privé Stripes Privé Stripes Lounge Stripes Lounge Ruckstuhl Teppich SPACEGRID in 2025 – Zdw Spacegrid Edition 2025 by Edition-H
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