
bonpart is a multidisciplinary design studio founded by Verena Waidmann and Lukas Gstöttner in 2016.
Based in Vienna, the studio collaborates with design partners across Europe.
Object
The studio's work spans furniture, lighting and object design for industrial-scale production and handcrafted editions.
bonpart offers thoughtful design alongside industrial product development services, substantially reducing development time. This efficiency is based on an in-depth understanding of manufacturing processes and the ability to deliver prototypes according to various requirements. Professional in-house workshops specialising in metal and wood processing, coupled with a strong local network of artisans and industry experts, facilitate rapid technical verification and realisation.
Interior
bonpart’s interior design clients are passionate entrepreneurs, companies and organisations with a shared understanding of quality. The studio focuses on creating authentic spaces and experiences that are informed by and translate the client's values, visions and background. Projects are characterised by a holistic approach, often encompassing brand strategy and customised solutions. Honest and personalised consultancy helps find meaning, clarity and direction in a concept, resulting in a 'highest quality, at lowest effort' strategy and its realisation.
Design philosophy
The studio approaches design as a craft of applied cultural philosophy. It is a communication, translation and interpretation process based on logic and intuition.
In terms of aesthetics, design is about beauty and elegance because beauty is a language that matters, even though our zeitgeist has a troubled relationship with it. Sophisticated beauty is not only a result of harmony and proportions but also is about imperfections, character and charm.
Design finds relevance on an ideational level by reflecting moods, relations and perspectives or by interpreting heritage and cultural aspects. Meaningful technical innovation and the evolution of design typologies based on social dynamics arise from a connection to values.
Opposed to trendy shapes, aesthetics that have a continual appeal are shapely creations of exceptional quality, that are either formally restrained or possess a fundamental potential of significance, sometimes both.
Speaking of sustainability, design is also about materiality and a mindset that localises oneself in the natural world beyond a cultural frame.
Such considerations in a design process may be complex, but the aura of an authentic object or space can be grasped in a second. This concurrent validity of analytic depth and intuition is what sets sophisticated design apart.
Selceted exhibitions and awards
Vienna Design Week 2024, Design Everyday
AUT NOW - Museum of applied arts Vienna 2024
Austrian embassy in Stockholm 2024, product launch // Nomia
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2024, David design
Vienna Design Week 2023, Design Everyday
Orgatec 2022, product launch // Skandiform
Vienna Design Week 2022, Design Everyday
Designmonat Graz 2022, Graz
Vienna Design Week 2021
Vienna Design Week 2020, Design Everyday pop-up
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2019, product launch // David design
Vienna Design Week 2018, Design Everyday
Paris Design Week 2018, product launch // ast for DANIEL
ICFF New York 2018, product launch // loop for jot.jot
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2018, Greenhouse
IMM Cologne 2018, product launch // meta for WON
SaloneSatellite 2017, Milan
Selected 2017, Graz
20 years of SaloneSatellite 2017, Milan
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2017, Greenhouse
Departure Studio within Blickfang 2016, MAK Wien
Vienna Vienna Design Week 2016
SaloneSatellite 2016, Milan




Contact
Studio bonpart
Seitenstettengasse 5/37
A-1010 Wien
office@bonpart.at
0043 699 19523480
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