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Martin Holzapfel, furniture maker and interior designer, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His aim is to create sensual and and mysterious furniture that retains its simplicity, interacting with the space. His designs not only incorporate pragmatic necessity, they also transmit an emotional quality within the everyday environment. The body-like pieces exist in a space between practical function and poetic association, not immediately declaring their use.
Since 1995 self-employed furniture maker
Freelance work in the areas architecture, design and stage set design, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt
Study of interior design, Academy of fine Arts, Munich
Study of art history, J.W.Goethe-University, Frankfurt
Exhibitions and awards
- BIKINI, Design Days, Berlin 2021
- MUJI, Berlin 2020
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Radical Craft, Direktorenhaus, Berlin 2019
- Handmade World Tour, Peking/New York/ London 2018
- BRUNNEN190, Berlin 2017/18
- 20 Years Salone Sattelite, Milan, Italy 2017
- Refugium, Berlin 2016
- Interior Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium 2016
- Berlin Selection, Milan, Italy 2015
- Miami Design Festival, USA 2014
- MADE Sao Paulo Brasilia 2013
- IMM Cologne 2011
- Galleria Luisa delle Piane, Milan, Italy 2011
- DMY Festival, Berlin 2010
- Designtide, Tokyo, Japan 2009
- Singapur Design Week 2009
- Salone di Mobile, Zona Tortona, Milan, Italy 2009
- Designers Week, Tokyo, Japan 2008
- Gallery Alexandre Popoff, Paris, France 2008
- Ozone Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2008
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Bronze Prize, IFDA Asahikawa, Japan 2008
- Salone di Mobile, Made in Berlin, Milan, Italy 2008
- IMM Nomination Innovation Award, Cologne 2008
- Furniture Fair, Tokyo, Japan 2005
- Aedes East Gallery, Berlin 2005
- IFDA Asahikawa Finalist, Japan 2005
- Salone Sattelite, Nomination, Milan, Italy 2005
- Galerie Fleisch Designmai, Berlin 2004
- Interior Foundation, Vitra Award, Kortrijk, Belgium 2000
- Design Gallery Ozone Plaza, Tokyo, Japan 1999
Books
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Salone Sattelite, Corraini Edizione 2017
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Berlin Design, Braun Verlag, 2009
- Desire, Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2008
- Furnish Gestalten Verlag Berlin 2007
Press
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Espaces Contemporains, Suisse 2023
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IDEAT, Hamburg 2022
- Elle decor, London, Great Britain 2022
- Marie Claire Maison, Milan, Italy 2022
- Raum und Wohnen, Cham, Switzerland 2022
- AD Architectual Digest, Munich 2021
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Tagesspiegel, Berlin 2019
- Corriere della Serra, Milan . 2015
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Interni King Size, Milan, 2015
- Zeitmagazin, Hamburg 2014
- HOME, Berlin 2014
- Intramuros, Paris 2013
- FUTU, Warsaw 2013
- Schöner Wohnen Hamburg 2013
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Möbelmarkt, Germany 2011
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Casaviva, Milan 2010
- Home Hachette, Milan 2010
- RUM Magazine, Sweden 2010
- Brigitte, Hamburg 2010
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AD Architectual Digest, Munich 2009
- DeutschlandRadio Kultur, Berlin, Interview 2008
- Casa Gracia, Italy 2008
- Thefuturelabotory, London, 2008
- AD Architectual Digest, Munich 2008
- Block Magazine, Canada 2008
- Icon Magazine, London 2008
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Pasajes Diseño, Madrid
2008
- Tip, Berlin 2007
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MD design , Stuttgart 2005
- Elle decor woven, Netherlands 2006
- Designboom, Milan 2005
- Berliner Zeitung, Berlin 2006