Are there limits to developing new materials and surfaces? Certainly. We just don’t know them.
We develop and produce all our materials in our own house, yet we also draw on a network of suppliers, so that technologies beyond our own expertise are available to us as well. Our strength lies in thinking freely and not confining ourselves to well-trodden paths. What interests us is making visions real — giving form to the inner images we carry. In this, we take our bearings not only from what we do all the time, but from what is possible.
Manufaktur, for us, is a timeless idea. We do not bind ourselves to machines or unit numbers; we trust in the finest resource available to us: the human being, with all their boundless imagination and craft, joined to the technical skill that our present age affords.
One thing matters to us. We are not perfect like machines, and we do not want to be. And that is what sets us apart from industrial production. We allow the charm of the seemingly imperfect that arises through handwork, just as we embrace the singularities of genuine materials. In a world aligned entirely with the industrial standard, this way of seeing is easily lost — yet right now it grows ever more important.
It is a piece of culture that would otherwise be lost.