Herbert Jakob Weinand

Herbert Jakob Weinand (* 1953 in Wittlich ) is a German furniture designer and interior architect , as well as a university professor. He lives and works in Berlin .

life and work

After an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker from 1967 to 1970, he studied interior design from 1973 to 1975 at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences , furniture and product design at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and at the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche in Florence . He then worked in the field of exhibition stand construction and interior design, created, among other things, object structures and equipment for television films (e.g. in 1982 for Die Flambierte Frau ) and designed the first restaurant interiors.

In 1985 Weinand opened his own design gallery in Berlin (reopened in 1992). In the same year he was a founding member of the designer group " Berliner Zimmer " and worked for television productions for the WDR . In 1989 he designed stands at two furniture fairs (including the International Furniture Fair).

In the following year a collaboration began with the Italian laminate manufacturer Abet and with Alessi ; he also carried out various interior design projects. In 1992 he designed a furniture and glass collection for the Milanese designer group Memphis . In 1993 he designed the “domotrend '93” trend stand at the Domotex interior design trade fair in Hanover, as well as the interior for the Bleibtreu Hotel in Berlin.

The next few years brought orders for the conception of various interior fittings, for example for the guest houses of the Hubertusstock hunting lodge in Eichhorst (1994), the traditional Berlin restaurant Luther & Wegner , for DK-Cosmetics (formerly in the Kramberg fashion house) in Berlin, the Hotel InRuh am Peetzigsee , as well other projects (including for the Leysieffer company ).

In 1998 Weinand received a professorship for furniture design in the interior design course at the Lippe and Höxter University of Applied Sciences in Detmold .

Further concept and design orders were the interior for a market hall in Berlin in 1999 , a Domotex exhibition stand for TrendHotel-aquawellness in 2000, the interior design of the restaurant at the Museum for Communication in Berlin, 2001 for seminar and guest houses for the project "Places of Stille "in Saunstorf , Mecklenburg , the ecological residential and commercial building project" gruenehaus "in Berlin, 2002 for the Bio-Art-Hotel in Hennef , 2003 for a campus of the FH Lippe and Höxter, for the interior design and graphic design of the restaurant" Fischerhütte ”on the Schlachtensee in Berlin and the interior of the Borsig Villa Reiherwerder in Berlin (the guest house for foreign state guests of the Foreign Office).

Web links

• Website of the Weinand Gallery
• Detailed CV of Herbert Jakob Weinand , artist database of the Institute for Foreign Relations eV (ifa)
• Aspects of Ecology in Design Project show from the Product Design - Furniture department, Prof. Herbert Jakob Weinand, Detmold School for Architecture and Interior Design