Austrian designers are looking for comfort in advanced technologies and ancient cultures. For almost 20 years, the EOOS bureau (Gernot Boman, Harald Grundl and Martin Bergman) has been accepting orders in the field of industrial design. Designs furniture for home and office, plumbing, light, and also develops the design of shops, boutiques and showrooms. Their customers include Giorgio Armani, Adidas, Alessi, bulthaup, Dedon, Duravit, Walter Knoll, Zumtobel.

Brilliantly educated pros, scholars, connoisseurs of Western philosophy, psychology and sociology not only design, but also analyze and generalize. They are strongly promoting the term “poetic analysis,” which defines the EOOS method. “At the beginning of work on the project,” says Gernot Bauman, “we study only the problem from the point of view of modern practices, ideas and technologies, and at the same time look for roots in the past. It is especially important when we work together with a team of a manufacturing company. ” A broad view of the task gives a greater variety of keys to solve it.

Lamp Discus Evolution, Zumtobel. 2012. Polymer, LEDs.

They also actively use the theory of "intuitive images" in their practice, trusting sensations born without concrete knowledge. “We like mistakes, paradoxes, first thoughts that came to mind,” the designers formulate their credo on the site. “The design dares to professionally invade the realm of the unknowable.” And sometimes even more abstract statements allow themselves: “We can imagine objects, even if we don’t know what they are.” In 2012, the bureau won a new generation toilet competition organized by the American Bill and Melinda Gate Fondation. “We have invented toilets that can stand even in the slums of Kampala (the capital of Uganda), even in the country residences of millionaires,” they say.

The Isanka series sofa for Walter Knoll won the 2016 Red Dot Award.

Designers EOOS - champions in the number of various design awards. Only Red Dot Design Award, they received 31 (!) Times. In 2016, this award was awarded to three products at once: the Omnia set for Fürstenberg, the Isanka sofa, and the chair from the same series for Walter Knoll. Particularly successful was the Tama 2015 table for the Walter Knoll: he collected five different awards. The design bureau is also known for publishing its own EOOS Magazine. In addition, all three participants teach and actively participate in theoretical conferences.

Tama's Walter Knoll table won five international design awards. In the photo version in marble and bronze.

In 1995, three graduates of the Vienna University of Applied Arts founded a bureau and thought about what to call it. They wanted to find a sonorous, simple name that would be convenient to write and pronounce. Ovid's Metamorphoses were on the desktop, and they found what they needed in the list of characters — Eos. And the very image of the goddess of the morning dawn, flying on a chariot drawn by four horses, came to their taste. Two letters "O" in the name instead of the one they put - for greater significance, well, to better remember.

In 2015, the Keilhauer mobile furniture series appeared. Coffee table Oota, Walter Knoll. Glass table top, metal frame. Red Dot 2011. Modular sofa Jaan Living, Walter Knoll. Upholstery: leather. Side tables. Red Dot 2011.

A new area for designers EOOS - designing dishes. “We already faced the world of cooking and cuisine when we were doing the b2 kitchen for bulthaup. We love to cook, love to eat and drink - this passion motivated us to do the dishes. The great advantage was that we were not familiar with porcelain and did not know anything about such factors as "standard industrial sizes and volumes", and therefore returned to the basic idea of ​​evolution - in terms of form and texture. "

Серия Omnia, Fürstenberg. Red Dot 2016. Leather chair Delta, Matteograssi. 2012. Frame: steel. Weaving is interpreted as a constructive method: two blanks form a single whole.

EOOS designers give the world universal items. The OpenSpace shower cabin (Duravit) is designed incredibly simple and ingenious: when you wash, put up two glass doors-partitions, when the shower is not needed - the doors are removed along the walls and the angle becomes part of the common space. Earlier for the Duravit EOOS they made a Nahho bath with a head rest, which allows you to lie on the water surface, achieving complete relaxation. Designers have peeped a form of a support at bushmen - those use similar adaptations during a dream. Paiova 5 bath is another Duravit product. The asymmetric rectangular shape is not a consequence of the authors' unbridled fantasy, but a tribute to ergonomics. Thanks to the backs with different inclination and the sides of different lengths in the bath, you can sit both sitting and lying, people of both tall and not very comfortable will work there comfortably. It is convenient to hold by a thin edge, wide serves as the shelf.

Headrest for bath Nahho, Duravit. Consists of two parts. Color: Matte Graphite. A series of upholstered furniture Hangout designers EOOS designed for the American brand Keilhauer.