Notre Best of Annuel
September 14th 2022
Editions Prestige SA, Switzerland
Espaces Contemporains on page 78, Maxime Pégatoquet
Each year, the Espaces du Design selection draws up a summary of Swiss design over the past year and highlights particularly inspiring projects. Although the sector suffered quite a bit during the two years of the pandemic, particularly in terms of visibility, the return to normality is accompanied by new products that often make sense in their approach and design. More responsible, more sustainable products, designed with a certain economy of means or responding to the problems of care in the broadest sense. Care is taken with objects, but above all with their impact, their use, their coherence in a certain way. As Georges Perec says, quoted in David Enon's La vie matérielle mode d'emploi, «what we need to question is the brick, the concrete, the glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools...» Thus, it is no longer a question of producing for the sake of producing, but above all of reflecting. And, in view of the diversity and quality of the objects selected, it can be said that Switzerland is confirming its status as a land of design.
Live Talk with Alfredo
June 9th 2022
Architonic, Switzerland
DAAily Bar Milan, Simon Keane-Cowell
Alfredo Häberli used his Live Talk at the DAAily bar during Milan Design Week to, among other things, explain the importance of analogue experiences and the human connections to be found in showrooms and at events like the Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone. «It is not easy to communicate a sofa in a digital way,» explained the designer. «It is like a piece of art, a sculpture. You need to walk around it.»
Ich bin kein Star, ich bin down-to-earth
February 16th 2022
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland
NZZ on page 31, Sabine von Fischer
Zurich designer Alfredo Häberli takes on practically everything. A visit to the studio.
Das Letzte
October 1st 2021
Ringier Axel Springer Schweiz AG, Switzerland
Bolero on page 74, Kristin Müller
Alfredo Häberli (*1964) knows the importance of asking the right questions. The industrial designer describes himself as a combination of Swiss precision and Latin American emotionality. And with this he has achieved international renown. In his Zurich studio «Alfredo Häberli Design Development», the Buenos Aires-born Swiss designer develops reduced and inventive designs, combining reality with soul and humour. Instead of following trends, he tries to find his own answers. And today, exactly thirty years after opening his own studio in 1991, he still realises his visions for brands such as Caran d'Ache, Kvadrat or Moroso with the same degree of passion, discipline and élan as on day one.