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R A I N E R
DAUMILLER
Born in 1939 in Oberlenningen – a small
mountain village in southern Germany –
Rainer Daumiller was a child of the Second
World War. Food was in short supply and
gathering fruit and berries was commonplace.
It was this early reliance on his environment
that gave Daumiller his affinity with nature,
a relationship that influenced his later career as
a designer.
Whether working in synthetic materials or in
his beloved pine, Rainer Daumiller always
demonstrated an acute understanding of his
medium. His ability to ‘listen to materials’
mean that his designs were always inspired by
the inherent characteristics of what they were
made from.
