24 September 2020

Insights into the new showroom of wood used by Dreikant for handcrafted furnishing

"Most of the wood comes from Styria, Austria," introduced Stefan Rehrl, co-founder of Dreikant and specialist when it comes to decide about the quality of the materials used for the handcrafted masterpieces-like customized interior items or the ready-made tables, sideboards,... of the new 'Craft' line. Fashion.at visited the new showroom of the carpentry and interior design company which was founded 2016 in Hallein, Salzburg. 'Dreikant' means translated triangular and is associated at first with a tool, a scraper how it's used by carpenters and references the three founders Mario Siller, Matthias Lienbacher and Stefan Rehrl, three school friends who share the same passion for carpentry, wood and steel. The first joint work was a table for one of the founder's parents. Several years later, the team around the three has grown to 16 people with two showrooms; one in Hallein and brand new the 45 square meter Dreikant branch at Gonzagagasse 7 at Vienna's old textile quarter where once even Helmut Lang had a showroom.

Image from left: Mario Siller and Stefan Rehrl captured by Fashion.at on 23 September 2020 at the new Dreikant showroom at Gonzagagasse 7 in the 1st district of Vienna.

The Dreikant showroom appears more like a wood boutique than a furnisher's branch. Visitors can browse through material examples installed as wood plates fixed on a movable dark steel construction. It's like leafing through hundred years of the manifoldness of the diverse forests of the Middle European alps of Austria, Switzerland and Germany. Oak is the most used material by Dreikant, tells Stefan Rehrl Fashion.at. Customers can bring in their own creativity such as presented at a chestnut table with blue epoxy and fishes. The fishes - art works from metal - were brought by the customer whose realized idea makes think of a creek in a forest and the fertility of earth (on view at dreikant.at/referenzen/kastanie_epoxi_01-2/).

Dreikant's activities are divided into 'Design' where pieces such as the mentioned chestnut, art fishes table can be customized via configurator at the showroom directly, the 'Business' branch where interior projects reaching from offices, shops, to gastronomy, hotels are designed, planned and realized, and the new since August online available 'Craft' line of ready-made furnishing.

Image below: Insight into the showroom. Photo: © Philipp Hutter.