Alfredo Häberli Design Development

Kulturplatz, Eva Wannenmacher

Our relationship with the car is a complicated one: For decades, there were no limits to personal freedom and maximum mobility on the roads. But in times of climate change, everything has to be rethought and cars are increasingly being pushed out of congested cities.

Question for the designer: Why are cars getting bigger and bigger? Swiss-Argentinian Alfredo Häberli likes to drive stylish vehicles from earlier decades, but has primarily made a name for himself as a designer of furniture and crockery. As a child, he often spent time at a motor racing circuit, which is where his deep love of cars comes from. He also lives this out now and again as a designer. A conversation about the beauty of the car and the questionable trend towards ever larger and more bulky vehicles. Also: cities without cars and how the automobile has shaped architecture.

NZZ am Sonnatg, Zuza Speckert

The Swiss designer can not only shape, but also write. Long-term goal: a children's book. If only there was time...

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IDEAT Magazine, on page 114, Guy-Claude Agboton

«Show me your studio and I'll tell you who you are.» Strolling through the Swiss designer's studio offers a unique opportunity to gain a better understanding of how he conceives his discipline and how the most diverse objects provide him with an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

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Company Brand Presentation, Ramona Gschwend

With this film for Alferano you may dive into a world where friendship and craftsmanship merge in a unique way. You are invited to become part of my creative process and to get an insight into my close relationship with Reto Caprez, the owner of Alferano, for whom I have been working as a designer for a decade and have been friends for even longer. Experience how this partnership has resulted in the breathtaking spaces of Alferano, which combine beauty, timelessness and well thought-out functionality.

DDCast 173, Georg-Christof Bertsch

«What we design designs us back.» This sentence by techno-futurist Jason Silva is the motto of the DDCast. Design influences the way we live together. We cannot carry on as before, or we will fall from crisis to crisis. Creativity is needed! How can we rethink the world with the help of design? Every week, the Deutscher Designer Club brings us strong voices from the worlds of design, science, business, politics. The DDCast, the podcast of the DDC, has been published since 2020 on a weekly basis. Listen here the episonde with Alfredo Häberli.