A Quiet Saturday in October with Nils Holger Moormann. Introduction

As we stood in a cold-storage centre in west Vienna looking at Ljod by Copa, somehow we knew it was also training for the rapidly approaching winter.

We just didn’t realise how quickly it would come.

A mere 72 hours later we found ourselves standing on the station platform at Prien in Chiemgau. Air temperature 4 degrees.

By the time we reached Aschau, the first snow of the winter was busy dusting the tops of the Chiemgauer Alpen.

And we began considering if it wasn’t, slowly, time to swap our shorts for full length trousers.

The first snow of winter on the Kampenwand in Aschau

Arriving at our accommodation the landlady asked us what had brought us to deepest Bavaria; “We’re here to photograph furniture”, we half lied.

“Ahh at Moormann” she replied.

There are a couple of other furniture making companies in Aschau; but somehow it was extremely comforting to hear that the locals consider the products of Nils Holger Moormann the only ones worth travelling half way across Europe to photograph.

If we’re honest we were only there to photograph one piece of Moormann furniture.

And not in a context for which it was originally intended.

However we couldn’t really explain that to our landlady. And not just on account of our frozen brains.

We’ll explain more later, once we’ve finished organising the photos and videos, but for now here is a picture of a Moormann Bookinist wonderfully re-created in gingerbread by the team from Neue Werkstätten, Munich.

We hope that’s not given you too much of a clue….