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OGGE SCHIEBER | DESIGNER
Our favorite story about Ogge Schieber is that he was such a prodigy with wood that he designed and built the cradle he slept in as an infant. OK, we’ll level with you – the cradle story is a concoction, but we are completely convinced that Ogge was born to be a carpenter and craftsman of the first order.

Woodworking is in the Schieber genes and has been ever since Ogge’s great-great grandfather founded Schieber Werkstaetten in the southern German town of Bopfingen in 1900.

“Yes I was born into it, but I wasn’t forced,” says Ogge. “It was by choice. I grew up in the shop and built my stuff. In our family, we always built something for birthday presents – a cane for grandpa, or picture frames.  I built a humidor that I still love.”

Ogge is a professional carpenter who was trained in interior and product design at Munich’s Fachhochschule Rosenheim and worked in architectural and interior design firms in Germany before coming to Qdesign. “I’m a pretty practical thinker,” he says. “I learn by doing – the hardest, but the best way. Good design has to do with proportions. If the proportions aren’t right, it looks like the face of a hockey player.”

Ogge considers the Q team to be a “diverse and interesting group. We love what we do – improving our customers’ products.”

Shaped by his family business and European design roots, Ogge brings a global, yet down-to-earth perspective to Qdesign and to our clients. “In general, Europeans pay more attention to the detail,” Ogge says.  “It’s overdue for North America to incorporate the European approach to design. Things worth making should be built to last.”

That’s our Ogge – our cradle to cradle advocate.  And that’s the truth.