Hannes Peer

Background

Hannes Peer is an architect and designer from South Tyrol. Minotti's biography traces his training through the Politecnico in Milan and the Technical University in Berlin, with periods in the offices of OMA / Rem Koolhaas, Zvi Hecker in Berlin, Studio Mosca and Metrogramma in Milan. In 2009 he founded Hannes Peer Architecture in Milan, which grew into a collective of up to ten freelance architects and designers. He is also a trained carpenter and builds wooden prototypes in his studio.

Signature Style

Eclecticism is the term Minotti uses for his work: a way of moving through architecture, historical context and current technology rather than a stylistic choice. The studio takes on product design for international brands as well as architecture for hospitality and residential clients, and its identity rests on a continuing exploration of colours and materials and on overlapping traditional and modern languages. Minotti adds that Peer looks for a balance between architecture, interior design and product design in every project, and that his curiosity about materials, textures and colours is constant. Minotti's biography notes his repeated inclusion in the AD100 of Architectural Digest and in Elle Decor's A-List, and his part in the AD Interiors exhibition in Paris in 2019.

Notable Works

• Yves modular seating system and the Yves Bed (2024 Collection)
• Emmi armchair
• Nico tables, the Janis screen and the Zoe bookcase
• Fill and Drake coffee tables, and the outdoor Rayan and Drake Dining tables
• Riley seating system, defined by a sinuous geometric pattern
• Softcase, an architectural seating system credited to him on its Minotti page

Legacy

His work with Minotti started in 2024; the company's news on that year's collection lists him and Giampiero Tagliaferri as its two new designers. The company says his approach, which joins past and present and traditional and modern elements, fits its wish for designs that merge aesthetics and functionality with a quality beyond passing trends. Yves, the first system, is described as having a dual soul: rigorous volumes alongside organic shapes, with asymmetrical couture-style seams that set the rhythm and position the feet. For Riley he describes two complementary souls, one architectural and outward-facing and the other softer inside.