Andreas Störiko, born 1965 in Köln, Germany,
Architecture and product design studies at Staatliche Akademie Der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart,
followed by full Scholarship by DAAD for further studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA. MFA 1994.
1992 starting collaboration with Wilkhahn on mobile conference concepts
April 1994 moving to Milan, short experience as assistent to Richard Sapper, Designer
parallel opening independent design studio in Milano, product development for Wilkhahn, BeB Italia and other clients.
First realized product: 1994 Confair folding table, awarded amongst others: "highest design Quality" by Designzentrum Nordrhein Westfahlen, Essen, Germany / "Top Ten" IF Award, Forum Design, Hannover, Germany / "Gold Industrial Exellence Award", ISDA Great Falls USA / "IIDA award": best of competition, Chicago, USA/ MD Design Magazine award: "best office system of the last 50 years"
Further collaboration with Wilkhahn: Extention of the Confair-table to the Logon- and Timetable family, awarded by "Designzentrum Nordrhein Westfahlen", "Designpreis Schweiz", "IF Award Hannover"
Exhibitions at "Compasso D'Oro", Palazzo delle Arte, Milano / "Fond National D'Art Contemporain", Paris / The Chicago Athenaeum, USA / ADI Milano: "Designers under 35" / "Osaka Design Festival", Japan and more
Recent development: The Aline program for Wilkhahn containing a stacking chair, swivel chair on casters and gliders and various Tables. Aline was awarded "Design Plus , Material Vision" Frankfurt, Germany / "red dot", Designcenter Nordrhein Westfahlen / "Focus Gold Award" Designcenter Stuttgart Germany/ Gold Award, IF 2007, Hannover Germany
Several ongoing design projects with Wilkhahn, D-Bad Münder and a table for LaPalma, Italy shown first April 2008 in Milan
Lectures on an extended Asia-Pacific tour 2006 in Hongkong, Singapore, Melburne and Sydney.
Collaborating with Charlotte Störiko, Designer, SID Stockholm, studies at Stockholm University, Sweden and Parsons School Of Design NY, USA.
Source: Lapalma