Lukas Cober
The challenge I see within my work is to create unique pieces with a focus on authenticity that overcome time without losing value.
Born in Aachen in 1989, Lukas Cober is an artisan and designer living and working in the Netherlands. Studied product design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Maastricht and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon. Founded his eponymous studio in 2018, focusing on designing furniture collections with unique renderings and character.
An unbridled urge to create that has driven Lukas Cober since childhood and continues to this day to dedicate himself to form and to matter, to generating beauty that—averse to trends—expresses an idiom in which authenticity sets the tone. Whether working with wood or fibreglass, with resin or cast metal, he invariably explores their possibilities, and considers the handling of the material to be at the heart of the process.
Lukas Cober emphasizes the value and beauty of the chosen raw material to create minimalistic objects that remain timelessly beautiful. His priority clearly focuses rather on a feeling that the material and the shape might arouse then the function of the object itself. It might be a chair, a bag or a lamp. Not the function matters but the mutual integrity. Thinking about each product as a static sculpture he creates a conversation between materiality and shape with a pure outcome.
- Art: Lukas Cober