Designer Stories
Mark Müller
“My goal has always been to design products that can stand on their own as design elements”
“I have a passion for creating beautifully designed and functional furniture that encourages users to feel good”
For nearly three decades Mark Müller has designed and developed award-winning contract furnishings for both corporate, institutional, and learning environments.
Müller’s approach to design reflects his innate understanding of materials and his lifelong appreciation of furniture that is beautiful, and superbly functional.
Müller – the Canadian-born son of German immigrants who were passionate collectors of Danish Modern design – was instrumental in developing a lighter, more adaptable, and more environmentally responsible aesthetic. “My goal has always been to design products that can stand on their own as design elements,” he says, “but it’s just as important to me that my designs are flexible enough to allow the design community to interpret them in ways that solve their own clients’ needs.”
It is from these ideals that designer Mark Müller, in collaboration with Christopher Wright, conceived Honey – a biophilic worksation design based upon a hexagonal grid that maximizes floorspace, and utilizes many current learnings around the needs in a modern office.
“I see myself as a problem solver, and the most crucial step in furniture design is understanding what problem the design is solving,” says Müller. “I have a passion for creating beautifully designed and functional furniture that encourages users to feel good.”
Products designed by Mark Müller are industry leaders in settings that range from private and open-plan offices to meeting rooms of all sizes, and from training facilities to libraries.