Design was woven into Christiane Hübner's DNA from the start: her mother was a freelance artist, and creativity and experimentation defined her childhood in Braunschweig. After graduating from high school, it was a natural next step for Hübner to study architecture and product design at Bauhaus University in Weimar. In 2009, she launched her own label, renna deluxe, in Wiesbaden. The designer is particularly drawn to exploring different materials and techniques—embracing their full potential and leveraging intentional interactions. She defines her aesthetic as poetic purism: bold breaks and contrasts that recontextualize the familiar. Every product balances emotional resonance with essential simplicity. The Stativ 90 lamp frame exemplifies this approach: three oiled-oak legs, each 90 cm tall, support any desk lamp with a screw base—gooseneck fixtures work especially well. The Falter pendant series captures light like a fluttering moth. Its surfaces play with contrasts: industrial coating on the exterior, genuine hand-finished metal within. Sophisticated pleats direct light downward, while side openings create ambient illumination through indirect reflection. The fern frond wall decoration is a striking focal point: delicate paper ferns, leaves, and fronds attach to wooden hoops as wreaths, wooden rods as garlands, or directly to walls—each arrangement tells a different story.

www.renna-deluxe.de

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Christiane Hübner

(Featured in CUBE Frankfurt 02|22)