History inspires Heilig. Handcrafted materials, subtle details, antique patinas, exquisite textures. Traces of time, preserved like relics in a materiality marked by history and use. Intruding on the historical substance is limited to the unavoidable. Nothing is concealed. Daniel Heilig revitalizes, honors, celebrates. Consciously preserving touching originality and imperfect splendor. Inspiring the desire to own something truly unique.
Unconventional, bold and soulful, Heilig blends contrasting textures and structures. Creates the fine line between warm and austere. Organic and perfect. Elegant and rough. Spontaneous and restrained. Simplicity and complexity merge into real beauty. Sustainability is not a design concept. But the honest consequence of naturally limited, metamorphic materials and creative processes.
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SHIP’S BISCUITS 1870
Historic baking tray for hard breads, heated a thousand times. Cleaned, deburred and clearly lacquered.
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TRANSATLANTIC 1870
High-density manufactured concrete, diamond polished, silicified, waterproofed and wax polished.
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WATER CASTLE 1912
Gently coiled hemp rope. Natural cable coating.
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REGISTRY OFFICE 1899
High born, historic tongue and groove wood board. Original finish, brushed and oiled.
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RELIC 1899
Reclaimed oak floorboards with original patina shaped by countless generations. Brushed and oiled.
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UPPER FOREST 1899
Original oak tongue and groove floorboard. Part of a spiral staircase. Brushed and oiled.
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ATTIC 1899
Sunlight-baked oak board from a coach house. Brushed and oiled.
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DORMITORY No #1
Solid oak board from a former monastery. Part of an old bedstead. Originally oiled.
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DORMITORY No #2
Solid oak board from the headboard of an antique, chest-like monk’s bed. Original finish, oiled.
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TREX 2020
Hand-deburred, enchantingly oxidized round tube connectors made of galvanized, malleable cast iron.
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RAW STEEL 1,200 °C
Untreated black steel, rolled at 1,200 °C. Perfectly welded, polished and deburred.
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LAST MEAL 1856
Historic wooden baking boards from a confectionary specializing in “sweet coup de grâce“. Brushed and oiled.
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HIGH MOOR 1901
Blackened by brackish waters and tumultuous seas, four meter long oak planks from ancient high moorland.
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PYRAMIDS 1901
Steel pyramids, once crude post caps, rhythmize and illuminate the drawer’s exterior.
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TIMBER HARVEST 1922
Pure natural fiber rope once used for timber harvesting with packhorses. Now a noble coating for a modern power cable.
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OPUS I.
Antique driftwood. Washed ashore from the Alpine Rhine into Lake Constance. Salvaged and reincarnated by Heilig.
Cabinet of curiosity,
magical synergy
"My materials are deeply rooted in history and at the same time completely in the present."
Daniel Heilig, Designer