Curriculum vitae · short version · draft

Stefan S. Rohner

Designer. Builder. Citizen of the world. Five decades of work on three continents.

Basel

Born and raised in a very big Swiss family of watchmakers, engineers, architects, designers, inventors, musicians, artists, doctors and missionaries. His grandfather founded a watch company more than 120 years ago.

Age 11

Recording lectures, conferences, festivals and concerts on four-track tape, and turning them into cassettes overnight.

Apprenticeship

Woodworker and furniture maker in Basel. Installed the solid Swiss pear-wood ceiling of the new Basel theatre, and built trading desks for the Bank for International Settlements.

The world

Work and life in Europe, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

New York

Designer and furniture maker for the rich and famous; a naturalized US citizen in Brooklyn. Rohner Design, Decoration & Engineering.

Selected work

Quandt Loft · MoMA Tower · Metropolitan Tower · Bergdorf Goodman · The Fulton · Morimoto · Château d’Oiron · furniture and store fixtures.

Today

Give Respect, Get Respect, and comeonin.online: a forum on the human condition in the 21st century.

Coming later: a memoir of a crazy life to date.