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FURNISHING AND INTERIOR CONCEPT FOR HAMBURG’S ELBPHILHARMONIE 

Daniel Schöning, Eva Marguerre & Marcel Besau

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Designer
Daniel Schöning, Eva Marguerre & Marcel Besau
Client
HamburgMusik gGmbH – Elbphilharmonie und Laeiszhalle Betriebsgesellschaft
Floor area
5.78 ㎡
Completion
2017

Together, the interdisciplinary team realised the interior concept and furnishing for the spectacular concert hall in Hamburg and designed a range of furniture specifically for this project.  The furniture concept, that in addition to the foyers of the Grand and the Small Concert Hall also includes the three lounges, the conductors’ and solists’ suites as well as the rehearsal rooms, subtly corresponds with the spectacular architectural concept by Herzog & de Meuron.  The furniture concept’s central theme, which extends over the entire concert hall, takes up the architects’ focus on materiality to create an aesthetic and imaginative resonance for the visitors of the Elbphilharmonie that goes beyond the musical experience. The result is a concept in which the materiality of the furniture varies and the spectrum of perception (warm – cold, soft – rough) can be experienced intensively. Similar to listening to music, dissonant and harmonic impressions are generated. Equalised by a uniform color scheme, the pieces of furniture give the impression of visually forming one single object. By the homogeneous use of one color, the building, the music and the furnishing form a surprising accord, in which every element speaks for itself and strengthens the singularity of all other elements.