Collection: Martin Ballendat

Martin Ballendat is an internationally successful designer for more than 35 years. Born in Bochum in 1958, he studied Design at the Folkwangschule in Essen. After 3 years as an employee for the company Sedus at the border to Switzerland, he took over the design and development department of the Austrian company Wiesner Hager in 1986 and shaped their design for more than 10 years. In 1995, he founded his own studio in Upper Austria and later a second one in Germany. Meanwhile, Design Ballendat is a company with 16 employees and works for more than 40 very well-known brands in more than 16 countries. He achieved more than 150 design awards, among them 40 Red Dot Awards and over 20 Best of Best, Silver, or Gold awards, and was Designer of the Year 2019 in the UK (Mixology Award). Martin Ballendat has worked for another 15 years as a lecturer and visiting professor at the Universities of Applied Sciences in the field of design in Graz and Salzburg.