One of the most enduring furniture companies in Italy, Acerbis stands as a connoisseur’s benchmark of Italian design — a pioneer with 150 years of expertise, whose continual search for modernity has produced creations of stunning innovation. Today that mission continues with fresh vigor. With industry leader MDF Italia acquiring Acerbis to elevate its presence in the international market, and newly appointed creative directors Francesco Meda and David Lopez Quincoces helming a dynamic path forward, Acerbis affirms its family-led lineage of cutting-edge vision, and its universe of designs that unite function and the avant-garde.
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Biography Markus Jehs (born in 1965 in stuttgart) and Jürgen Laub (born in 1964 in ulm) have met each other during the academic studies of industrial design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmuend and became friends after an internship in New York in 1990. After they graduated in 1992 they set up jehs + laub in 1994. From that time on they started to design furniture and lamps for Italian companies, such as cassina, ycami and nemo. Year by year they expanded the cooperation with international brands like cassina, fritz hansen, knoll international, renz, stelton, davis, schönbuch, cor and wilkhahn. For mercedes-benz they designed the master concept of the worldwide showrooms, numerous interior designs and exhibitions, such as the ‚suite 606‘ at the world famous Icehotel in north sweden. jehs+laub won many international awards, their projects have been shown in numerous exhibitions and they give lectures all over the world.
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Biography Marco Acerbis Born in 1973 Marco Acerbis graduates in architecture from Politecnico di Milano in 1998. From 1997 to 2004 he lives in London where he works with Lord Norman Foster’s Studio. Over these years he collaborates on the construction of an eight storey high Medical Research Building at the Imperial College Campus in London. He then becomes Project Architect for Capital City Academy, a 250 meter long High School building for 1400 students which was opened by Tony Blair. He sets up his own practice in Italy in 2004. Fascinated by designing at very different scales he quickly moves on to explore with a constant cross over of skills, ideas, tools and technologies all sorts of subjects to achieve a globally designed space. The Vertigo floor lamp, designed for Fontana Arte in 2004, was immediately acknowledged as a best seller and an icon of our time and is now included in Vitra Design Museum permanent collection. Prius door handle designed for Colombo Design wins a special mention at XXI Compasso d’Oro ADI. Kloe Armchair designed for Desalto wins the Red Dot Design Award 2009. His interest for contemporary issues takes him to be directly involved in sustainable architecture with the design and construction management of Xeliox Energy Lab and Polins. Xeliox Energy Lab is designed to be the first industrial building to be certified Class A in Italy. Polins is certified CasaClima Class A+, the best building standard. Awards 2009 - Kloe Armchair Winner of Red Dot Design Award 2008 - Vertigo floor lamp - Vertigo is included in the Vitra Design Museum permanent collection - Prius door handle - Special mention at XXI Compasso d’Oro ADI - Xeliox Energy Lab First Prize Odysseus 2008 Confindustria, Bergamo - Xeliox Energy Lab Special mention at: “Organismi consapevoli: Progettazione e realizzazione edifici a basso consumo energetico” by the town of Lodi City Council -Xeliox Energy Lab Special mention at: “Rassegna di Architettura lombarda under 40. Nuove proposte di architettura.” 2000 - Scaffale Standing Third Prize “Young and Design Competition” at the Milan Forniture Fair Publications 2010 - Laboratorio di Architettura, MADE 2010, by ofArch presenta il progetto POLINS 2008 - Architettura tra sostenibilità ed efficienza energetica, Il Sole 24 ore, Milano - Mostra convegno Luoghi di produzione ecocompatibili, Edicom Edizioni, Bologna - L’efficienza energetica dell’edificio, Modulo, Milano - Casa & Stili, Sky Leonardo TV, Milano - A conversation around Italian design, FontanaArte, Praga - Word Fashion Channel, Fashion channel TV, Milano 2007 - Largo ai giovani!, Design Library, Milano - A conversation around Italian design, FontanaArte, Shanghai, Cina 2005 - A conversation around Italiandesign, FontanaArte, Sydney, Australia
About Acerbis
One of the most enduring furniture companies in Italy, Acerbis stands as a connoisseur’s benchmark of Italian design — a pioneer with 150 years of expertise, whose continual search for modernity has produced creations of stunning innovation. Today that mission continues with fresh vigor. With industry leader MDF Italia acquiring Acerbis to elevate its presence in the international market, and newly appointed creative directors Francesco Meda and David Lopez Quincoces helming a dynamic path forward, Acerbis affirms its family-led lineage of cutting-edge vision, and its universe of designs that unite function and the avant-garde.
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