Interview with Martina Schuhmann
Since I remember I was interested in design and art and next. After highschool I started to study architecture but after some semesters I started to work.
Designer Interview
25 April 2018
After highschool I have started to study architecture. I didn´t finish it but I was always interested in design, homeware and interior. From time to time I was restyling my house - always brought some personaltity to my home. I was painting, working with drift wood and finally I designed my first felt stone rug.
It´s a one woman show and it´s specialized in felt design. 90% of the items are customized.
design = art ... and art isn´t what it is - it´s what you make others see
Drift wood lamp
natural materials like wood and wool
work life balance has to be good
I feel happy to create something new
sometimes I´m doubtful if it´s a item you can really use
functunality
Most of my ideas come by being in the nature - feel the nature. Get my inspiration while traveling - other places other inspirations
Item has to b e stylish as well as a good factore. It has to stand the daily life
I live next to Vienna - Austria. Yes Austria is beautiful country and we have a lot of nature to get inspired.
I´m working with interior Designers and it´s very inspiring to get new "ideas". Most of my rugs are customized and for me it´s important that my design is adapted to the enviroment.
my rugs, my drift wood lamps and one alessi bowle
pos - you can create what you feelneg. - sometimes customers want to adapt the design in a "wrong" way
it has to be useful and functunal
sometimes it´s from the first moment like you want it to be - sometimes it needs years
from where did you get this idea
interior design
myself - but I discuss new ideas with friends
Rugs like meadows, a bed of flower ... it brings happiness home
www.flussdesign.at