Curriculum Vitae
Gernot Bohmann was born in 1968 in Krieglach/Styria, Harald Gründl in 1967 in Vienna, and Martin Bergmann in 1963 in Lienz/East Tyrol.
They studied industrial design together at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and then founded EOOS in 1995. The studio’s name is inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the name of one of the four chariot horses of the sun god Helios.
EOOS developed “Poetical Analysis” as a research tool, which the designers use to investigate rituals, myths, and intuitive imagery and employ as the departure point for their designs. For EOOS, design is a poetical discipline, which oscillates between the realm of the archaic and high-tech.
Today EOOS operates in the fields of furniture and product design for clients such as Alessi, Bene, Bite Beauty, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bulthaup, Carl Hansen & Søn, Dedon, Duravit, Fürstenberg, Geiger, Herman Miller, Hussl, Keilhauer, Lamy, Laufen, Nuki, Poltrona Frau, Walter Knoll, and Zumtobel.