Stefan Diez (Designer)

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Stefan Diez in Icon Design, May 2017

Stefan Diez (* 1971 in Freising ) is a German industrial designer .

Life

After an architecture course and a carpenter apprenticeship, Stefan Diez spent a year in India . There he designed and built furniture . After that year he studied industrial design at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1996 to 2002 . In 1998 he was assistant to Richard Sapper , then worked for the designer Konstantin Grcic in Munich until 2002 . In 2003 he started his own business and opened his own design studio in Munich , where he developed furniture, dinnerware , bags and exhibition designs, among other things . Under the exhibition title Full House: Design by Stefan Diez , the Museum of Applied Art Cologne 2017 presents an insight into his work. From 2007 to 2014 he was a professor at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe. Since 2018 he has been professor of industrial design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Works

  • Furniture (e.g. for Burgbad, e15, Emu, Gandia Blasco, Hay, Magis, Moroso, Thonet, Wagner, Wilkhahn)
  • Kitchens and table accessories (Authentics, Rosenthal)
  • Tableware (e.g. for Arita and Schönwald)
  • Lamps (e.g. for Vibia)
  • Bags (Authentics, Bree)
  • Exhibition designs
  • Jewellery

Awards

  • Bavarian State Prize for Young Designers (2002)
  • Design Report Award (2002)
  • interior innovation award of the international furniture fair imm cologne (2004)
  • International Design Award Baden-Württemberg, GER (2004) "Genio" + "Tema"
  • Die Gute Industrieform / iF, GER (2004) »Genio« + »Tema«
  • Design award of the Federal Republic of Germany in silver (2006) for his Oven-to-table program (fire-proof dishes) designed for Thomas
  • 2007 Materialica Design & Technology Award
  • 2011 2 × Red Dot Best of the Best Award for "Chassis" and "Homme"
  • 2016 Red Dot Best of the Best Award for the "Logastyle Lucrum" stove
  • 2018 Red Dot Best of the Best Award for chair "D1"
  • 2019 Wallpaper Design Award for "Guise" pendant light

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Design Annual - Moroso. In: The Design Annual website - inside: showtime, 2008. 2008, archived from the original on November 4, 2014 ; Retrieved November 4, 2014 .
  2. ^ Eva Müller-May: Bags by Stefan Diez. In: Architecture and Living. 2011, accessed November 5, 2014 .
  3. ^ Artist / Architect Stefan Diez - Prizes and grants. In: Institute for Foreign Relations. Archived from the original on January 23, 2015 ; Retrieved November 4, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Peter Stuiber: No longer young-young, but successful. In: The Gap (magazine). November 10, 2011, accessed November 18, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Design Awards - News: Buderus Titanium Line wins design awards - MotorZeitung.de. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Red Dot: Office design in a nutshell: excellent furniture and matching accessories. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Guise was awarded a Wallpaper Design Awards 2019. In: Vibia. February 7, 2019, accessed July 7, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Diez, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising , Bavaria