Hanspeter Steiger

There is something typically Swiss about Steiger: he feels called to explore the world when the small home country fails to offer everything the big heart desires. As a child he wanted to be a circus electrician – already back then wishing to combine solid craftsmanship with the big, wide world.

He became a cabinetmaker, worked as a draughtsman and attended the Higher School of Design in Basel, focusing on furniture and interior design. Always with the aim in mind to consciously shape the objects in our living environment, to fashion materials into functions and to express within this transformation the poetry of the matter- and thus to find obvious solutions. Beauty in function.

A creative yearning prompted Steiger to move to Scandinavia. He stayed four years and graduated as a furniture designer and interior designer at the Danish Design School in Copenhagen. “The Northern Lights”, an award-winning competition project for a snow sculpture in Nuuk, Greenland, was created in this period. Steiger built it on the spot with two co-students. A sculptural, intuitive gesture- an impromptu idea, formed off the reel. Beauty in emotion.

In 2001, after his learning and development phase, Hanspeter Steiger founded his design studio in Zürich. Parallel to the building up of his own work place, he worked several years as a freelance project manager for the Swiss interior designers Pia Schmid and Iria Degen.

In 2003 he already made a breakthrough as a designer with the chair TORSIO for the Roethlisberger Collection. A chair made from a warped three-dimensional pattern.

In 2005 followed the next peak in his design work: the lamp Lampetia ClassiCon, which is impressively modern and classic at the same time.

In 2008 Hanspeter Steiger decided to concentrate entirely on his own work. Upon completion of the Book harp- a unique piece for a private client in 2009- begins the aggregation of further developments from the design studio Hanspeter Steiger. In 2010 a LED light series, and a gaming device will succeed.

Esther-Mirjam de Boer, Certified. Arch ETH / sia / sda

2000 Design Report

2001 MD

2001 International Design Yearbook, Michele de Lucchi

2002 MD Design Jahrbuch

2002 Edelweiss

2003 MD

2003 Design Report

2003 Werk, bauen+wohnen

2004 International Design Yearbook, Tom Dixon

2004 Bilanz

2006 Schweizer Möbel Lexikon, Zwicky-Hablützel

2006 Air-Magazin Zurich Airport

2007 1000 New Designs, Hudson London

2008 Hochparterre

2008 Bolero

2008 Habitus

2009 Eco-Design-Book

2009 Schöner Wohnen

2009 Wohnrevue

2009 Raum und Wohnen

2009 Tendance

2009 Swiss Design

1998 Internationaler Designwettbewerb Sapporo, Japan, 3. Preis

1999 Schneeskulpturen Wettbewerb Nuuk, Grönland, 2. Preis

2000 Internationaler Designwettbewerb London, England, Shortlisted

2003 International Forum Design, IF Product Design Silver Award für

Formholzstuhl TORSIO

2003 Design Preis Schweiz, Nomination für TORSIO

2007 Berner Design Preis / Newcomer

1999 Scandinavian Furniture Fair, Kopenhagen

2000 Möbelmesse Mailand, Salone Satellite

2001 Möbelmesse Stockholm

2003- 2009 imm Köln

2003- 2009 Möbelmesse Mailand

2010 imm Köln

2010 Möbelmesse Mailand