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Felix Muhrhofer

  • Furniture maker
  • Pettendorf, Austria
  • Master Artisan
Felix Muhrhofer Furniture maker
Contact
German, English, Spanish
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+43 69912804040
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A self-taught master of stones

  • • Felix is entirely self-taught
  • • He makes interior design pieces out of terrazzo
  • • The infinite possibilities of terrazzo fascinate him

Felix Muhrhofer’s terrazzo pieces are no strangers to interior design lovers around the globe. His designs range from kitchen countertops to side tables and bar counters, bringing out the beauty of an often-overlooked mundane material – stones. This passion was sparked after Felix’s brother found a book featuring old terrazzo recipes. They tested it by making a floor in the apartment that they shared. Soon after, Felix designed and made his first kitchen. "The floor still exists today and is still beautiful." In 2001, he opened his first workshop in a garage after completing a degree in industrial and interior design in his hometown of Vienna at the University of Applied Arts and at the ELISAVA in Barcelona. Today, in a former farmhouse, he works with metal and wood, and casts and grinds terrazzo.

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Works

  • © ElisaSeydel Pope Bellanova
  • © Roman Mintert Duke Maria
  • © ElisaSeydel Pope Bellanova
  • © Clemens Kois
  • © Clemens Kois
Photo: © ElisaSeydel Pope Bellanova
Pope Bellanova

This side table is made of intertwined cylinders of corroded steel. They are filled with Terrazzo made of Rosso di Verona gravel combined with deep red slate rock. The base of the terrazzo is a color gradient going from white in the center to dark blue on the edges.

Photo: © Roman Mintert Duke Maria
Duke Maria

This side table is welded from pure massive steel and corroded afterwards. Felix Muhrhofer moulded the terrazzo directly into the steel frame. The polished terrazzo surface is made of gravel from the Dolomites on a blue background.

Photo: © ElisaSeydel Pope Bellanova
King Eurelia and King Hera

These two drinking tables at a height of approximately 60 cm are made of bent steel sheets. The terrazzo surface of the King Hera table is black with stones from the beaches of Mykonos, Greece. The King Eurelia table is the opposite of Hera. Its terrazzo is made with an iron oxide red base filled with black stones from Italy called Nero Ebano.

Photo: © Clemens Kois
Wild Ariane

This freely formed side table is made of stones in colors ranging from grey to red from the River Tagliamento in Italy. The three legs are made of firewood from Vienna’s Forest. The cross-section of the wooden legs can be seen in the surface of the Terrazzo. The outline of the table surface is formed by natural river pebbles embedded in a light green base.

Photo: © Clemens Kois
Admiral John Paul 1

This bar counter at a height of 110 cm is made of a bold steel structure and has a foot bar. The terrazzo surface on the top has a dark green background and is filled with stones from two rivers: the Tagliamento (Italy) and the Rhein (Germany and Austria).

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