Bernard Sessel

The developing process preceding each of Nina Mair’s projects resembles the development of a storyboard and consists of far more than simply dealing with the pragmatic and technical aspects of each project. With her products and architectural concepts, Nina Mair tells stories of the origin, birth and final destination of an object. She often follows tracks leading back into a distant past while at the same time letting her creativity be guided by the future. Her work draws from her passion and enthusiasm for materials, handicraft und various industrial production techniques. Her design ideas are analysed in cooperation with manufacturers, material properties being examined and exhausted, and production procedures refined. It is her aim not only to achieve innovation and functional adequacy but also to transform handcrafted products into objects that can be produced serially in order to make them accessible to as many people as possible. She gains inspiration from her daily surroundings at home as well as her travels, particularly to the vibrant metropolises around the globe. Led by her unerring instincts for current tendencies, she discovers remote quarters, workshops and all sorts of hotbeds of creativity where she locates the unknown and unexpected as sources for new ideas. Looking at something in its entirety, from the object to a building and vice versa, is based on Nina Mair‘s passion for architecture: „Architecture is more than just a vessel, filled with objects, it is a space that has the potential to develop along with the people who use it. I consider my work to be successful when it stirs people emotionally.“