Die Produktdesign Alumni Emanuel Spiecker, Florian Knöbl und Lukas Klein stellen bei der diesjährigen Dutch Design Week aus.

Wann: 18–26 October 2025, 11:00–18:00 Uhr
Wo: De Caai, Eindhoven
Curated by Liv Vaisberg in collaboration with Dutch Design Week

Die HfG-Alumni Florian Knöbl, Lukas Klein und Emanuel Spiecker wurden ausgewählt, um bei „Forward Furniture“ auszustellen: einer kuratierten Ausstellung auf der Dutch Design Week, die sich zukunftsweisendem Möbeldesign widmet. Die drei Designer wurden eingeladen, eine kleine Kollektion zu präsentieren, die eine kohärente Vision bildet. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf realisierten Möbelstücken mit einem Fokus auf Sammlerdesign, Sondereditionen, experimentellen und konzeptionellen Arbeiten.

Die beiden HfG-Absolventen Florian und Lukas sind Teil einer Gruppenbewerbung zusammen mit der Designerin Lena Ringel und präsentieren ihr Projekt „Tactile Narratives“

Florian Knöbl works with wood left behind from felled city trees, carefully sanding the irregular chunks into stone-like forms that follow the natural contours of each piece. Rather than reshaping them entirely, he works with what’s already there, highlighting the structure, weight, and history embedded in the wood itself. More on Florian here.
Lukas Klein reworks synthetic wood boards, rounding their edges to expose the fibreboard beneath printed veneers. By peeling away the illusion of wood grain, he repositions surface as something performative, and the structure underneath as part of the story. Their group partner Lena Ringel casts ceramics using modular moulds made from broken plaster parts. The resulting vessels take on the fractured forms of the mould itself, allowing the plasters’s own behaviour to guide the outcome. More about the project can be found here: https://linktr.ee/TactileNarratives

HfG-Alumnus Emanuel Spiecker presents his work Wrapping Waste – algorithms that generate upholstered objects from digitised leather waste. His programme creates desired objects directly on the basis of various design guidelines and parameters. In an initial application project, he used it to produce a series of water drop-shaped upholstered furniture. His work was exhibited during Milan Design Week 2025 and awarded the Gunther Schroff Prize at the 2025 Rundgang exhibition at the HfG Karlsruhe.

About the exhibition: Forward Furniture is a new exhibition taking place during Dutch Design Week in the 2000 m² CAAI, a huge, raw industrial building in Eindhoven that is being presented for the last time before its demolition. The exhibition showcases the experimental future of collectibles and signature furniture. It brings together over 100 relevant design studios and presents pieces that push the boundaries of form and material while remaining rooted in their use.

Forward Furniture invites all participating designers to show a coherent ensemble of at least three realised works. With a focus on signature pieces, special editions and experimental designs, the exhibition highlights projects that expand the language of furniture and collectively design its next chapter. The exhibition will bring together 60 to 100 international participants and offer a bold and inspiring overview of where furniture design is headed next.