The works of the designer Werner Aisslinger, born 1964, cover the spectrum of experimental, artistic approaches, including industrial design and architecture. He delights in making use of the latest technologies and has helped introduce new materials and techniques to the world of product design like in his unique gel furniture with the collection ‘soft cell’ and the chaise ‘soft’ for zanotta in 2000.

The ‘Juli chair (cappellini)’ was the first item of furniture to use a new type of foam called ‘polyurethane integral foam’ and became the first German chair design to be selected as a permanent exhibit at the MoMA in New York since 1964.

In 2012, he created the ‘Hemp chair’ with Basf and Moroso – the worldwide first biocomposite monobloc chair. In the process he has created striking designs and received awards from all over the world — from Milan’s Compasso d’Oro to the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Red Dot Award the FX Award in the UK or the American Interior Design Award. Werner Aisslinger´s ‘loftcube’–project became one of the most discussed modular and transportable housing projects within the last years.

Werner work is exhibited in the permanent collections of international museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the French Fonds National d´Art Contemporain in Paris, the Victora & Albert Museum London or the Museum Neue Sammlung in Munich, and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil, Germany.

His recent work includes a number of furniture design projects for Vitra, Foscarini, and Moroso, product designs for Haier and Canon as well as the 25hours Hotel Bikini (Berlin, 2014).

In 2013, Werner opened his first solo show called ‘Home of the future’ in the Berlin based Museum ‘Haus am Waldsee’. In 2014 he was awarded the prestigious AW Designer of the Year Award in Cologne. Werner lives and works in Berlin.