Philipp Mainzer

Philipp Mainzer (born October 23, 1969 in Mainz ) is a German architect and product designer . He is a member of the Presidium of the German Design Council .

Life

Mainzer studied product design in London at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and architecture at the Architectural Association . In 1995 he founded the furniture brand e15 together with Florian Asche , whom he met during his studies. Named after the zip code of the East London district of Hackney, where Mainzer's first studio was located, the company was best known for the Bigfoot solid wood table and the Backenzahn stool . Both pieces of furniture have now become design classics.

In 2017, Philipp Mainzer made his debut for the first time outside of his role at e15 with the jorel storage system for Interlübke GmbH as part of the imm cologne . jorel was awarded the Interior Innovation Award 2017 and the German Design Award 2018 and thus joins the list of Mainzer's furniture designs that have been honored with national and international design prizes. In 2016, Philipp Mainzer and Farah Ebrahimi, Art Director at e15, received honorary membership of the German Designer Club .

At the same time as he founded e15, he practiced architecture in New York and continued to do so after his return to Germany in 2001. From 2004 to 2016 he developed the shop fitting for the Hamburg fashion label Closed , u. a. of the fashion label's Paris flagship store, which opened in 2013 . Mainzer's architectural office is now realizing commercial, residential and cultural projects around the world and was responsible for building a distillery for the Monkey 47 dry gin brand and the Frankfurt signature store for the Australian cosmetics company Aesop.

Today Philipp Mainzer is creative director and managing director of the Philipp Mainzer Office for Architecture and Design as well as of e15 Design und Distributions GmbH. He has been a member of the Presidium of the German Design Council since 2009 and gives lectures on architecture, design and branding.

Works

• Stool / side table Backenzahn
• Bigfoot table
• Bed Mon
• Bed pardis
• Shiraz sofa
• Shahnaz Mahnaz sideboard
• Habibi side table
• Sloane table
• Kerman sofa
• Sideboard Jorel (for Interlübke)
• Kazimir table

Awards

• German Design Award for the jorel sideboard (2018)
• Interior Innovation Award Cologne for the Kerman sofa (2017)
• Interior Innovation Award Cologne for the jorel sideboard (2017)
• Honorary membership of the German Designer Club (2016/2017)
• Interior Innovation Award Cologne for Table Ten (2011)
• Interior Innovation Award Cologne for the Pardis bed (2008)
• Design award Germany for the Shiraz sofa system (2008)
• Interior Innovation Award Cologne for the Shiraz sofa system (2008)
• Design for Asia Award for the interior design of the Xue Xue Institute in Taipei, Taiwan (2007)
• Interior Innovation Award for the Bigfoot table (2006)
• Red Dot Award for the e15 office furniture series (2006)
• International Contemporary Furniture Fair New York Award for the New Places bathroom collection (2006)

Cooperations

Mainz sells furniture by renowned designers under the e15 brand. Works by Stefan Diez and Arik Levy are included in the collection. In 2012, twelve pieces of Ferdinand Kramer's furniture were reissued and have been distributed ever since. In 2015, e15 presented a product family in collaboration with the British architect David Chipperfield .

literature

• Manuela Roth: Masters + their Pieces: best of furniture design . 1st edition. Braun Publishing, Salenstein 2012, ISBN 978-3-03768-097-1 .
• Beautiful living (ed.): The book of the designer. The most important designers and their greatest classics . 1st edition. Callwey, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7667-1930-0 .
• Duncan Campbell, Charlotte Rey, Sven Ehmann, Robert Klanten : The Craft and the Makers. Tradition with attitude . 1st edition. Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89955-548-6 , p. 116-123 .

Web links

• Website of the Philipp Mainzer Office for Architecture and Design
• Website of the furniture brand e15
• Entry about Philipp Mainzer in the designer lexicon of the magazine Architektur und Wohnen
• May-Britt Frank-Grosse: Interview with Philipp Mainzer. Reduction to the essentials. In: MONOQI blog. October 8, 2012, accessed November 4, 2014 . 
• International Contemporary Furniture Fair on Wikipedia
• Suzie Joyce: Ferdinand Kramer - The rediscovery of an avant-gardist. Pearl Productions, 2012, accessed on December 1, 2014 (English, video interview about the Ferdinand Kramer collection with Philipp Mainzer on Vimeo). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Jürgs: Schirn Magazine - Philipp Mainzer. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main GmbH, August 14, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2014 . 
2. ↑ The service provider . In: Sportswear International . December 2013, ISSN  1021-0989 , p. 126 .
3. ^ Ann-Kathrin Conzen: Closed opens new stores in Münster and Düsseldorf. Sportswear International, July 20, 2012, accessed November 4, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Location Group Research (Ed.): Retail Market Study Worldwide 2014 . Location Group AG, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-9524279-3-4 , p. 224 .
5. ↑ german-architects - office profiles interior designers - Philipp Mainzer. Retrieved November 4, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Interior Innovation Award at imm cologne 2011. (No longer available online.) January 18, 2011, archived from the original on December 5, 2014 ; Retrieved November 4, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ DFAA YearBook 2007 - XueXue Institute. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Design For Asia Awards, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 4, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.