“How a design looks should not be far from what it does,” Jürgen says. “So we resist styling. Parts of a design that are nice but not necessary fall away.”
Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub both studied industrial design at the Schwabisch Gmund University in Germany, graduating in 1992. A friendship began during an internship in New York in 1990. Four years later they co-founded a design studio, Jehs+Laub, in Stuttgart. In the years since, they’ve designed furniture, tableware, lighting and interiors for a range of companies including Cassina, Danskina, Fritz Hansen and Mercedes-Benz, among others.
