Stone can do so much more: Objects by Breitwieser – the most inspiring combination of stone, art and design

Designer Anastasija Lesjak and architect Martin Lesjak, CEO of INNOCAD Architektur, are founders and owners of the product design studio 13&9 Design. Since the start in 2013 in Graz, 13&9 is both - a design studio for internationally renowned companies as well as its own brand with various products. The studio's transdisciplinary work spans the areas of architecture, product and fashion design to sound and light design. The company has been awarded numerous international design awards and is a research partner of various universities. Anastasija and Martin Lesjak were also honoured as Product Designer of the Year by the renowned American Interior Design magazine.

Martin Mostböck can't be pigeonholed. He studied architecture at the Technical University of his hometown of Vienna and then worked for the office Coop Himmelb(l)au. In 2001, he founded his own studio, which he renamed AID ArchitectureInteriorsDesign in 2015. Interdisciplinary design, from armchairs to high-rises, runs through his entire work. The jump between the standards succeeds effortlessly.

Heike Stuckstedte is an artist, interior architect, designer and art historian and has been designing extraordinary illuminated objects since 2015, in which art, architecture and design merge. Each at the interface to the sculpture, their objects are fed by sunlight and LED and give the rooms poetry. Her light art has been shown at international exhibitions and trade fairs and has so far received several awards and nominations, including the RADO Star Prize Austria 2019.

For Florent Souly, design is useable poetry: design can awaken something in a person if they feel addressed. But Souly also likes it when something has a punchline, a certain humour. That's why he's also a big fan of the artist Robert Filliou, because he's seen art and design in everything. For example, in how to go home and when you take a different path. At a competition, a member of the jury once told him that it does not always have to be the most complicated solution, one could also respond to a topic with a simple formal language - the famous dogma "Less is more".

This may be true here and there, but why not "Less is less" or "More is more", as Florent Souly once suggested with two opposing kitchen designs for Breitwieser Stone World.

GSarchitects was founded in 2001 by Danijela Gojic and Brigitte Spurej in Graz. Both Gojic and Spurej studied architecture at TU Graz and worked in numerous offices before deciding to become self-employed. Today, after 20 years of GS and numerous realised projects - especially in residential construction - design by means of a sketch has remained a three-dimensional model of thought, while togetherness has given way to an office with 15 employees.

After completing her studies in interior design & 3D design at the New Design University in St. Pölten, Karin Binder founded her office ka.ma interior design in 2014. In addition to complete renovations and the redesign of interiors, it is dedicated to lighting design. Her modular lighting creations as well as interior designs have received several awards, including the German Design Award, the ICONIC Award and the BAKALOWITS Lighting Design Award.

Stephan Vary is an architect and industrial designer. He completed his studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2005 he founded the architecture and design office Labvert based in Vienna. Together with his team, Stephan Vary has already been able to realise numerous international projects that can be located primarily in the luxury segment of interior and brand design. The closeness to the arts as well as the interdisciplinary thinking characterise the style of the office and its work.

Barbara Ambrosz and Karin Santorso both studied industrial design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where they both also taught. In 2003 they founded the design studio Lucy.D in Vienna and opened another branch in Steyr in 2016. Their customers include established brands such as Alessi, Lobmeyr, or Wiesner-Hager. The two designers are concerned with the claim to individuality, regionality and tradition. In 2017, Ambrosz and Santorso founded Neu/Zeug, a label for modern and sustainably produced porcelain lamps together with the owner of a porcelain manufactory, Beate Seckauer.

M&G, that's Joachim Mayr and Heinz Glatzl. The two have been working together for 20 years, because it combines a passion for qualitative craftsmanship and high-quality materials. They implement their extraordinary projects with a dedicated team. And these can be seen, among other things in the FORMDEPOT, a room for collaboration with partner companies, in which exclusive and individual solutions can be experienced directly.

Norbert Wangen has elevated the kitchen to an icon. He studied sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and architecture at the Technical University of Munich. In 1995, he designed the first kitchen for an apartment extension. As a model K2, it has been produced since 2000 by his brand Norbert Wangen, which was taken over by the Italian kitchen manufacturer Boffi in 2003. In parallel with his work for Boffi today, Wahl-Wiener designs tailor-made kitchens for private customers.

Rainer Mutsch studied design in Denmark, Berlin and Vienna. After graduating from the University of Applied Arts, he worked for Werner Aisslinger in Berlin and opened his own studio in Vienna in 2008. However, his design is not characterised by the career or even a self-representing design language, but by the access to and handling of the material itself. The ability to meet raw materials in a new way and sometimes to lead them to their own limits. This is also the case with natural stone.

Nada Nasrallah and Christian Horner have been working together under the Soda Designers label in Vienna since 2000. After their vocational training as a carpenter and goldsmith, they studied with Ron Arad at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the ENSCI / les Ateliers in Paris. They then gained professional experience in design offices such as Sottsass Associati, Paolo Rizzatto, Philips Design Vienna and Singapore. They designed for Bene, Ligne Roset, Fontana Arte, Wittmann, MDF Italia, Berndorf and Porro. Her work has been honoured with numerous national and international prizes.

With his office Söhne und Partner, Thomas Bärtl has been one of the most important co-creaters of the German-speaking architectural landscape for several years. Founded in 2003 together with Guido Trampitsch and Michael Prodinger, the Viennese office has already celebrated international success from Villach to Dubai. At the centre of the creation of sons and partners is the dialogue between man and architecture, which is always in relation to the existing environment, whether built or natural. Bärtl studied architecture at TU Graz. Since 2013, he has been teaching interior design and green building at the TU Wien with a focus on sustainable architecture.

After his training at the art school and a few semesters of industrial design at the University of Applied Arts, the designer Walter Grill has dedicated himself to the theatre and event sector for the time being. An organic food according to family recipe then brought it back to the design. After this reached market maturity, further orders followed, which brought him the Austrian Interior Design Award, among other things. In addition to commissioned work, he also develops his own projects, such as the Post Table in cooperation with BREITWIESER.