Simply intelligent: NILS HOLGER MOORMANN

Nils Holger Moormann’s designs are different. You look at them, stop short, and then the scales instantly fall from your eyes: that’s damned good design!

In a restored former stable, a team of young freethinkers creates furniture with a difference. The firm is based in Aschau, between Bavaria’s self-proclaimed sea and its highest peak: between Chiemsee and Kampenwand – a high-contrast mix. And an inspiring one too, you soon realise.

“Creativity is a timid creature,” says Nils Holger Moormann, naming one reason why freedom and room to breathe are so important for unrestricted experimentation and lateral thinking. In his own experience, the best ideas come from trying things out. The founder himself is an autodidact with a rather unconventional biography. He discovered his current passion after dropping out of his law studies. Now the in-house design department creates furniture that captures the imagination and surprises us. At the same time, Nils Holger Moormann believes that every single detail has to be right: top-quality materials, ingenious connections, heirloom quality, furniture that’s like a housemate and therefore has a value that serves as an antidote to the fast-moving pace of our lives. Ideally, it doesn’t just come with us when we move, it adjusts to our new home and habits as well. More than anything else believes Moormann, pieces of furniture should be like uncompromising “envelope pushers” that are deliberately nonconformist. The designs seem to be giving us a friendly wink as if to say: “You’d be better off not taking yourself too seriously.”

Text: KV
Photos: Nils Holger Moormann, Julia Rotter (portrait)

Nils Holger Moormann GmbH
An der Festhalle 2
83229 Aschau im Chiemgau
Tel.: +49 (0) 8052 9045 0