TOM STEPP

Tom Stepp had completed an impressive number of vocational training courses before graduating as an architect from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. As a carpenter, building technician and construction technician, he had a useful knowledge about the forces at work in construction. His craftsman background has given him a pragmatic approach to furniture design. "Good design? Something it doesn’t hurt to sit on!" he smiles. Stepp’s ideas often come when he discovers a need in his own everyday life. He designed the Prime Time Easy Chair when his daughter was little. He needed a chair they could both sit in at the end of the day, whilst she watched television and he took a ten-minute break. "Prime Time appeals because it so clearly signals its underlying idea, come and relax in me, it says. People get the message," Stepp explains.