What is particular about your design work?
I love handicrafts, especially old techniques like metal casting. I like the shine of brass and bronze: there’s something timeless and elegant about it. I’d be very sad if these centuries-old techniques were to die out. Since I come from the world of fashion and textile design, my focus is on structures and contrasts: matte and shiny, rough and velvety soft, light and dark. My design work usually tells a story.

How do you unite tradition and innovation?
Tradition inspires me a great deal: I love the Wiener Werkstätte design movement. But there’s no point in just copying tradition. There’s no appeal in that. I wanted to make a coffee house table in Viennese weave, but in a way that hasn’t been seen before. My furniture works are niche products, like jewels in the room.