creative work philosophy With its unique symbiosis of storytelling, narrative architecture and collage principles STUDIO AISSLINGER counts among the trend-setters in „spatial design“. Additionally, however, we are also pursueing new paradigms to guide our design practice; „experience architecture“ and „instagramable spaces“ have become conceptual centerpieces to our design projects.

Collage Design goes beyond form. It is about the constitution of space, of atmospheres. Today, neither stylish minimalism nor the uniform appearance of modular-schematic interior design can be the goal. The urban nomad wants to experience design as patchwork and a cabinet of wonders emerging from his own biography. Thus, the future challenge will be to create no universal style but friendly, daily-life objects fitting the collage that our lives are. Not the minute detail by itself but its behavior within a complex whole will be important. Colors will experience a renaissance and the designer has to learn again how to combine them virtuosically. In this sense, STUDIO AISSLINGER conceives of the designer as a DJ, sampling material from different sources; he does no longer aim for the homogenous „total look“, but instead wants to surprise with a collage of things. As our daily life, as the world itself is a conglomerate of most different elements, STUDIO AISSLINGER does not sight a monochrome, all-encompassing style, but a mixture of vintage, flea-market, classics and archetypical new design; the result is a grown mishmash, turning the heterogeneity of different parts into a vibrant and inspiring atmosphere.

Storytelling Over the last decades, narrative qualities of products and spaces have gained in importance. Today, no object or architecture project is able to survive without an intriguing story. Why? Sheer functionality, which for decades served as the designers’s only guideline („form follows function“), has become insufficient. Although not simply wrong and dispensable, in times of digitalisation it does no longer satisfy visitors, clients, users. A growing need to know more about the product’s origin, the working conditions, under which it is produced, its CO2 footprint or the power balance of the whole building wants to be met. But even beyond these rather technical information emotional links to the material item get more and more into the center of attention. Social media make their users search an imaginative, personal contact with the analog object or space, a personal contact he misses in his digitalized quotidian life. „Storytelling“ can turn the antiseptic product into an object with biography, into an authentic, self-confident item, made of sustainable material in regional manufacture.

Biography

The works of the designer Werner Aisslinger born 1964 cover the spectrum of experimental, artistic approaches, including industrial design and architecture. He delights in making use of the latest technologies and has helped introduce new materials and techniq ues to the world of product design like in his uniquegel furniture with the collection“soft cell“ and the chaise „soft“ for zanotta in 2000. The „Juli chair (cappellini)“ was the first item of furniture to use a new type of foam called „polyurethane integral foam“ and became the first German chair design to be selected as a permanent exhibit at the MoMA in New York since 1964. In the process he has created striking designs and received awards from all over the world — from Milan’s Compasso d’Oro to the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Red Dot Award or FX Award in the UK. Werner Aisslinger´s „loftcube“–project became one of the most discussed modular and transportable housing projects within the last years.

His work is exhibited in the permanent collections of international museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the French Fonds National d´Art Contemporain in Paris, the Museum Neue Sammlung in Munich, and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil, Germany.
Recent work includes a number of furniture design projects for Vitra, Foscarini, and Moroso, product designs for Haier and Canon as well as the 25hours Hotels (Berlin, 2014, Zürich 2017 and Cologne 2018). In 2013 Werner Aisslinger opened his first soloshow called „Home of the future“ in the Berlin based Museum „Haus am Waldsee“. In 2014 he was awarded the prestigious AW Designer of the Year Award in Cologne. In 2017 he opened his exhibition „House of wonders “ in the Museum Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.

Werner Aisslinger lives and works in Berlin.