Alfredo Häberli

Alfredo Häberli was born in Buenos Aires in 1964 and moved as a teenager to Switzer­land with his family, where he studied Indus­trial Design at the Zurich Univer­sity of Arts (ZHdK). Already as a student he orga­nized exhi­bi­tions at the Museum für Gestal­tung Zürich (MfGZ) and founded his own studio in Zurich in 1991.

His clients include inter­na­tion­ally renowned compa­nies such as Alias, Georg Jensen, Iittala, Kvadrat, Moroso and Vitra. For the system-house-builder Baufritz located in Germany he devel­oped a house-ensemble between object and archi­tec­ture and for BMW he explored the mobility of the future.

Apart from many restau­rants, there are a number of other inte­rior projects to high­light: More than two dozen shops have been created for the Spanish shoe manu­fac­turer Camper, as well as the entire inte­rior of the Swiss Embassy in Copen­hagen in 2016. The biggest project was prob­ably the Hotel 25hours Zurich West, which opened in 2012. He was respon­sible for the overall inte­rior deco­ra­tion and designed more than 60 prod­ucts for the hotel.

His works were shown 2008 in the mono­graphic view «SurroundThings» in the MfGZ, many exhi­bi­tions and some years later also in the Museum Paul Klee in Berne.

With his exhi­bi­tion-concepts, archi­tec­tural-projects and design, he is one of the most sought-after designers in the world. He can combine tradi­tion and inno­va­tion, joy and energy in his projects. This is how he sets the mark for signs in design history and receives the «Grand Prix Design» from the Swiss Federal Office for Culture in 2014.