e15 stands for consistency, rigorous design, combined with high quality materials and innovative artisan production methods. As a modern quality brand that caters to a global home and contract market, the brand maintains a global approach to the interiors, with a marked architectural vision pursued by its founder, the architect Philipp Mainzer, together with the designer and art director Farah Ebrahimi.
In close collaboration with designers, architects and artists, e15 develops original products and cultured artistic references, which reflect the brand’s philosophy and its approach open to different cultures and disciplines.
The company takes its name from the postal code of its first laboratory in London and was founded in 1995 with a first small collection; a radical new simplicity marked this debut, leaving an indelible mark in the history of modern design with essential shapes made even more evident by the solid and raw material, the untreated solid oak. The BIGFOOT ™ table and BACKENZAHN ™ stool are the most iconic furnishings in this collection, which has established a new aesthetic through the pioneering use of solid wood in its purest form.
From the Historical collection of 1995, new projects alternated annually, always on the same track, enriching the catalog with beds, bookcases, desks, chairs, armchairs, sideboards, bookcases, sofas … and an equally rigorous line of accessories. The use of solid oak remains at the center of production, recently flanked by the darker walnut option. A special mention deserves the selection and textile production, created for upholstered items such as beds and sofas, created by art director Farah Ebrahimi, which takes modern ancient textile traditions from different countries in a modern key, rereading them with contemporary colors and geometries. The re-editions of some historical pieces designed in the 1920s by Ferdinand Kramer, a German master with a rigorous and essential trait, which perfectly aligns with the contemporary proposals of e15, have recently been included in the catalog.