Our International Designers

Volker Hundertmark

Born in Hannover in 1941 studied Industrial Design, Sculpting and Painting in Hannover and Paris. He lives and works as a designer and sculptor in Sweden and Germany. His intuition, his excellent technical knowledge and his many years of experience have made him one of the most sought after and successful product designers. He has sold millions of products the world over and has received several prestigious industrial awards. Apart from his furniture he also creates toys, technical products and chinaware.

Prof. Stefan Heiliger

Born in Berlin in 1941, completed his studies under the renowned professor Wagenfeld. He himself was professor at Offenbach College for many years. Experimentation still takes absolute priority in his design techniques, his ultimate aim being to create the highest levels of comfort possible. The results of which is a kind of furniture that is often ahead of its time or even timeless. His success stories not only reveal some of the top brand names, but also include major accolades and awards both nationally and internationally.

Luigi Colani

Born 1928 in Berlin, begin his extraordinary career in Paris in the early fifties, starting up in the automobile industry. After studying aerodynamics in Sorbonne, followed by a period in America with the aircraft manufacturers Douglas, where he worked in the area of new materials, he went on to develop the Colani GT, a small sports car which later became an icon of sixties lifestyle. During this period he also developed plastic furniture making him a world famous pop star of design. In the course of his career there is very little that he hasn’t designed from ballpoint pens to space shuttles. His biodynamic forms inspired by nature and his visionary studies have made Colani one of the best-known designers of the western world.

His biodynamic architecture in Asia has earned him star status there too, where he conceived an entire city landscape. Inspired by rattan as a renewable raw material and “magically drawn to the endless formability and complete roundness that this material offers” he joined the Schütz Company in 2005. Under the motto “Back to Nature” he wants to put the Schütz Company which, in his words, is the “leading company in the rattan furniture branch” back on the map with new and unexpected features, and regaining its well-earned reputation in the branch of lifestyle furniture.

Kai Stania

Born in Salzburg in 1965, he has been living for more than 30 years in Vienna. The creative Austrian star first studied architecture before completing his design studies during which he spent 2 years working for the world famous designer Ron Arad in London. Kai Stania has received numerous awards. Among others he has won the much coveted Red Dot Design Award several times and was also awarded the innovation Prize for Architecture & Office. He has not only been nominated as designer of the year but also for the Design Prize in the Federal Republic of Germany and for the Austrian State Prize. To implement his ideas in rattan is a real challenge and leads to solutions that only Schütz are capable of producing at such quality.

Jane Armgardt

The ecological development of funiture is of particular importance to Jan Armgardt, a skilled carpenter and qualified interior designer, born in 1947 in Celle. Before becoming honorary professor at Aachen University of applied Sciences, he was assistant professor at Coburg University of applied Sciences and taught at the Wicker School of applied Sciences in Lichtenfels. As designer for top national and international companies he is not only the creator of well-known classics like the Tattomi Armchair, but has also been honoured with numerous accolades and was the winner of diverse awards like the Chicago Good Design Award or the Red Dot Design Award.