The German furniture company Faust Linoleum combines traditional carpentry and digital manufacturing, creating linoleum tables and tabletops in the Bavarian Alps. The family company has been an expert in environment-friendly furniture since the ‘90s. Their story begins in the early ‘80s, when carpenter and furniture specialist Franz Faust, who was working with designers in Berlin, wanted more than the luxury sector he was creating for at that moment. So he took a leap and developed his own business that would focus on people. Franz wanted his high-quality designer furniture to be available and affordable for everyone. He achieved this by combining and focusing on design, hi-tech production, high-quality materials, and elegant, functional aesthetics. Choosing linoleum as their key material, Faust Linoleum was born.

Valerie_Objects is an Antwerp-based design label founded by Axel van den Bossche, the CEO of Serax, and art director Veerle Wenes, the owner of the Valerie Traan gallery in Antwerp. The two creative minds combined their knowledge and passion for all things good and beautiful in this amazing brand through which they “translate signature works of designers, architects, and artists into tangible objects.” Their mission is to appreciate the aesthetic meaning of everyday objects, focusing on what makes them special. That is why they started with cutlery, a tool that is not easy to design to be beautiful as well as functional. Among others, Maarten Baas, Muller van Severen, and Koichi Futatsumata have designed their own interpretation of these daily tools, leaving behind the classic silverware shapes. After this initial cutlery series, more creations and more collaborations followed. Today, they mostly work with Muller Van Severen, Maarten Baas, and Destroyers/builders. Valerie_Objects has grown into a global design platform “presenting everyday tools and objects that have a unique appearance” as their main philosophy.

LOEHR is a Berlin-based design studio that combines the talent, interests, and passions of three brothers into one brand. David, Leon, and Julian Löhr founded LOEHR creating furniture and objects in “a constructive interplay of force, planes, and materials.” So it is no surprise that their brand name derives from their last name: In German, ö can also be written as oe, which is completely identical. Setting the name with an oe works much better visually and internationally, according to the brothers.