Marie-Luise & Alexander Bermbach Founders of Bermbach Handcrafted It’s raining at daybreak in Frankfurt. We walk along a street bordering the river until we reach our destination. Alexander and Marie-Luise Bermbach open the door to their offices, located on the first floor of a corner building. We climb a beautiful, large staircase that reminds us of typical Parisian Haussmann architecture. At the top of the stairs we find an open, light-filled room with large windows. We arrive at the headquarters of Bermbach Handcrafted, a brand specialised in designing and producing sustainable rattan furniture. Alexander and Marie-Luise, travellers, passionate about nature and the sea, are also the owners of Maingold Cafe, located on the ground floor of the same building. Marie-Luise has carefully decorated the space. The walls are covered in pretty wallpaper, printed with flowers and hummingbirds. There are intricate 69 floral bouquets on each table. Velvet sofas, antique lamps and wooden chairs complete this unique location. We sit near the bar. While chowing down a tasty salad made with local produce, Alexander and Marie-Luise tell us their story, how Bermbach Handcrafted was born and how they cultivate their passion for craftwork and green production day after day. TELL US HOW BERMBACH WHO IS BEHIND THE BRAND? HANDCRAFTED BEGAN. HOW MANY PEOPLE MAKE UP BERMBACH HANDCRAFTED? Marie-Luise : Originally we were looking for a bed for our own children. On the internetMarie-Luise : My husband Alexander and I we discovered pictures of beautiful oldare the founders and creative minds behind rattan beds. However, whenever one wouldBermbach Handcrafted. We are a small, come up for sale, it would get snapped upmultilingual team of employees in the fields immediately. Apparently we weren’t the onlyof graphic design, social media, office people who found these beds beautiful. Inmanagement and sales. the end we decided to try and produce them ourselves. Our goal was to adapt the beau-WHAT ARE YOUR “LITTLE SECRETS” TO tiful design to today's age. CREATION? HOW DO YOU WORK? The firstprototypeswere made by asmall basket maker in Germany. Then we took aAlexander : We simply have a weakness for big step and started working with a beautiful old, curved forms that we find renowned Japanese-Indonesian producernatural and timeless. With our furniture we who shares our idea of aesthetics, sustai-try above all to find harmonious proportions nability and quality. and to bring transparency and stability in dnarb eht dniheB