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.

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.

Porsche Zentrum Zürich,

Commissioned by the Porsche Zentrum Zürich, Alfredo Häberli designed and handcrafted this artwork for a Porsche 356 SC. In this conversation held in German, he explains his approach and thoughts on the project.

Profiler, Sebastian Vargas

The film «Memories of the Future» brings together a selection of projects realized between Iittala and me over two decades. The corresponding exhibition at the Design Lab Gallery in Iittala & Arabia Design Centre in Helsinki showcased the integrity of the long collaboration and was held in 2021.