Moritz Bannach takes his time.
When the Berliner started his furniture brand Bannach four years ago, he did it with a single piece he designed himself, a table in different versions.
But it wouldn't have needed more, because the "Uno" tables proved to be a high-flyer - despite or perhaps because of the ambitious color combinations in which they are available.
International magazines featured them in novelty spreads, architects ordered them for building projects.
Now, four years later, Moritz Bannach is presenting a new collection with four additional furnishing objects alongside the tables.
And it doesn't feel a day too late.
While some Berlin start-ups are rapidly burning up investor money and disappearing from the market again, Moritz Bannach is still there, selling his tables to private individuals and companies, immediately reinvesting the proceeds and is "grateful that everything went so well".
Brand with recognition value
With the new products, a side table, a console table, a stool and a vase, Moritz Bannach is now “slowly and calmly” realizing the next step in his plan.
"The tables should make the statement." And on the basis of this statement, the brand is expanding with an entire furnishing collection.
"The goal is to create something that hasn't existed before," says the trained landscape architect during a conversation in the Frieda restaurant in Berlin, where one of the tables is.
"Creating something that lasts.
A brand with recognition value.”
He must have succeeded in doing that with the “Uno” tables: anyone interested in contemporary furniture design has probably seen the simple pieces made up of solid slabs.
And in the color combination of pink, dark green, wine red and orange, they will definitely be remembered.
The inspiration for this first own design?
"I've always liked the straight lines," replies the founder.
"I think Donald Judd is great, the geometries, the distances." Other artists such as Josef Albers or Imi Knoebel influenced his understanding of color.
childhood with classics
However, his love for furniture grew as a child: Moritz Bannach's mother ran an antiques shop and collected design objects herself.
The family lived with classics from Vitra or B&B Italia.
However, when he was young, he didn't do much about it.
It was only when he was stuck in a creative crisis during his studies and happened to stop by a Berlin design shop that he experienced the "aha effect".
He was immediately employed in the business, completed his studies in landscape architecture and then ventured into founding the company.
"I just dared," he says, laughing as if he couldn't believe it himself.
He has his furniture made in Germany, and it is available from dealers or directly from the Bannach website.
At the same time, he is still working for a large Berlin real estate project, taking care of the planning and furnishing of the apartments and advising customers on the equipment.
For the new Bannach collection, he engaged his designer friend Julius Heinzl, who contributed, among other things, a console table with a distinctive wave profile.
Bannach himself designed two objects, a stool with a wicker seat and a side table made of two cubes stacked crosswise.
For this table called "Arco", Bannach has again designed a series of extravagant color and material combinations.
There are versions made of expressively patterned plywood or laminates, which the Italian designer and architect Ettore Sottsass once developed.
recognition factor?
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