Making MossArtum II

Long before we had clients, we had people we wanted to make smile.

Today, almost every artwork we create begins with a conversation.

Not about dimensions.

Not about wood.

Not even about design.

It begins with a person.

Who are they?

What do they love?

What story should this piece tell?

Looking back now, we realize we've been working this way from the very beginning.

We simply didn't know it yet.

The First Walls Outside Our Home

Our very first panel never left our bedroom.

It still hangs above our bed today.

The second project, however, was different.

Our older son had just bought his first apartment.

Like many first homes, it was almost empty.

There was no sofa.

No dining table.

No decorations.

Just white walls waiting to become part of a life that was only beginning.

We wanted to create something that would always stay there.

Not just a gift.

A part of his home.

So we designed two matching panels especially for that living room.

At the time we still didn't have a workshop.

I was constantly experimenting with materials and manufacturing techniques.

The wooden bases for those panels were laser-cut from thick birch plywood.

Because birch is naturally very light, I even had the wood printed with the texture and colour of dark timber before we assembled the artwork.

Looking back now, it sounds slightly crazy.

But back then, every new project was also an excuse to learn something we had never tried before.

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Our older son's first apartment.

The room was almost empty, but the walls already had a story to tell.

Years have passed.

The apartment has changed completely.

There is now a sofa, a dining table and everything that makes it a home.

The two panels are still hanging there.

Today they share the wall with another artwork we created many years later for his birthday.

It is called CTRL • ALT • RELAX.

Without planning it, we had started creating not just decorations, but a timeline of family memories.

Every Birthday Became a New Challenge

After finishing those panels, something changed.

My imagination had been set free.

Every special occasion suddenly became an opportunity to create something unique.

Soon another birthday arrived.

A close friend was turning fifty.

He loved music and had spent years with a guitar in his hands.

Instead of buying a present...

we decided to build one.

Working together with the graphic designer from my advertising agency, we created an artistic guitar unlike anything we had seen before.

It wasn't meant to become a product.

It was simply made for one person.

That guitar eventually became one of our most recognised early designs.

We recreated it several times for other musicians and music lovers.

Today, it still has its place in the MossArtum collection.

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The Guitar.

One person's passion became our next artwork.

Not long afterwards, another friend celebrated the same milestone.

His passion wasn't music.

It was sports cars.

He had just bought a Porsche and spent his weekends driving it on amateur racing tracks.

The story was completely different.

So the artwork had to be different too.

The Porsche

That project became one of the biggest challenges we had taken on so far.

Once again, the design came from my graphic designer.

Our task was to transform it into something that could exist in wood.

For the first time we experimented seriously with wood intarsia.

The wheels even included laser-cut metal details.

At the time, it was by far the most complex piece we had ever created.

And for a long time...

it was the artwork I was most proud of.

Looking back now, I smile when I think about it.

Not because it was perfect.

But because every project kept pushing us beyond what we believed we were capable of.

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The Porsche.

The project that introduced us to wood intarsia and showed us how far our ideas could go.

Looking Back

Those early years taught us something that still shapes every artwork we create today.

We never started with wood.

We never started with colours.

We never started with techniques.

We always started with a person.

A son moving into his first home.

A musician celebrating fifty years of life.

A friend living his childhood dream of owning a sports car.

Every person brought a different story.

And every story deserved its own artwork.

Without realizing it, we had already found the way we wanted to create.

We thought we were making gifts.

Looking back...

we were learning how to tell stories.

📷 Next Chapter

Our first gifts slowly led us somewhere we had never expected.

People we had never met began asking if we could create something for them.

→ Chapter Three: When the World Found Us