DANTE - Goods And Bads
DANTE – Goods And Bads is a German design brand for furniture, objects and accessories, founded in 2012 in Neukirchen (Bavaria) by Aylin Langreuter and Christophe de la Fontaine. Langreuter is a visual artist and writer with a degree in fine arts from Munich and philosophy from Vienna. De la Fontaine is a Luxembourgish industrial designer who completed his studies with a degree in industrial design from the ABK Stuttgart (under Richard Sapper), subsequently worked at Therefore-Product Design Consultants in London, then at Lissoni Associati in Milan, and thereafter led the design department of Patricia Urquiola's studio for over a decade. Today both are professors of industrial design at the Stuttgart Academy. De la Fontaine has received numerous international awards including the Archiproducts Design Award, Red Dot Award, Good Design Award and the iF Gold Design Award; Wallpaper* listed him among the world's 100 best designers. DANTE produces predominantly in Italy.
Concept and working method: DANTE pursues a deliberately unconventional design attitude. Every collection is developed around a so-called "guest" — a person, institution or concept that influences, inspires or enters into dialogue with the design process. The collections emerge from this dialogue: the emotions, habits and memories of the respective guest flow into form, material choice and presentation. Each collection deliberately incorporates a "Bad" — an object that provokes conflicting feelings, unease or ambivalence. Products are not intended to be primarily functional and efficient, but emotional: talisman objects that create connections. Selected collections and guests: Admit One Gentleman (bartender Charles Schumann — tumbler, champagne bucket), Parallel Choice Assortment (photographer Camille Vivier — mirror, containers, shelf), Silent Associé (IMM Cologne 2018). Selected products: Serpentine (sofa/seating system, Archiproducts Design Award 2022), Charlotte (chaise longue), Bavaresk (oval table), Babel (bookcase with five wood trays and thin metal structures), Bold (table + chair: cork, aluminium, leather), Rayons (coffee tables with changing appearance depending on viewing angle). Further designers: Stefan Diez (Falstaff armchair), Andrea Steid, Raquel Pacchini, Garth Roberts, Jakub Zak, Pietro Russo, Christian Haas, Shane Schneck, Calen Knauf.
For architects and interior designers seeking a furniture and accessories programme that understands functionality as a necessary but not sufficient condition and instead commits to emotional resonance, cultural reference and the deliberate incorporation of ambivalence, DANTE – Goods And Bads is the most unusual German address — a small, independent house that treats every collection as a narrative project.
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DANTE - Goods And Bads
DANTE – Goods And Bads is a German design brand for furniture, objects and accessories, founded in 2012 in Neukirchen (Bavaria) by Aylin Langreuter and Christophe de la Fontaine. Langreuter is a visual artist and writer with a degree in fine arts from Munich and philosophy from Vienna. De la Fontaine is a Luxembourgish industrial designer who completed his studies with a degree in industrial design from the ABK Stuttgart (under Richard Sapper), subsequently worked at Therefore-Product Design Consultants in London, then at Lissoni Associati in Milan, and thereafter led the design department of Patricia Urquiola's studio for over a decade. Today both are professors of industrial design at the Stuttgart Academy. De la Fontaine has received numerous international awards including the Archiproducts Design Award, Red Dot Award, Good Design Award and the iF Gold Design Award; Wallpaper* listed him among the world's 100 best designers. DANTE produces predominantly in Italy.
Concept and working method: DANTE pursues a deliberately unconventional design attitude. Every collection is developed around a so-called "guest" — a person, institution or concept that influences, inspires or enters into dialogue with the design process. The collections emerge from this dialogue: the emotions, habits and memories of the respective guest flow into form, material choice and presentation. Each collection deliberately incorporates a "Bad" — an object that provokes conflicting feelings, unease or ambivalence. Products are not intended to be primarily functional and efficient, but emotional: talisman objects that create connections. Selected collections and guests: Admit One Gentleman (bartender Charles Schumann — tumbler, champagne bucket), Parallel Choice Assortment (photographer Camille Vivier — mirror, containers, shelf), Silent Associé (IMM Cologne 2018). Selected products: Serpentine (sofa/seating system, Archiproducts Design Award 2022), Charlotte (chaise longue), Bavaresk (oval table), Babel (bookcase with five wood trays and thin metal structures), Bold (table + chair: cork, aluminium, leather), Rayons (coffee tables with changing appearance depending on viewing angle). Further designers: Stefan Diez (Falstaff armchair), Andrea Steid, Raquel Pacchini, Garth Roberts, Jakub Zak, Pietro Russo, Christian Haas, Shane Schneck, Calen Knauf.
For architects and interior designers seeking a furniture and accessories programme that understands functionality as a necessary but not sufficient condition and instead commits to emotional resonance, cultural reference and the deliberate incorporation of ambivalence, DANTE – Goods And Bads is the most unusual German address — a small, independent house that treats every collection as a narrative project.