Gabriel Hafner
Designer
During my time at Jaipur Rugs, I hope to deepen my understanding of rug-making, both through its technical stages and as a cultural language. I’m seeking dialogue and serendipity: an experience that challenges my assumptions and expands my visual vocabulary. By working with weavers, I want to explore how tapestry merges image, object, and space, and how industrial and mass production aesthetics might be reinterpreted through the lens of traditional craft.
Gabriel Hafner is a Swiss-born, French-German designer and artist based in Paris, working under the name Hafner Büro. His practice moves between design and art, navigating the space between utility and discourse. He creates furniture, everyday objects, and installations that balance industrial processes with symbolic resonance, approaching each piece as both a functional tool and a narrative form. Beyond function, his work explores how objects structure behaviour, evoke desire, and encode ideologies. Since founding his studio after graduating, he has collaborated with institutions and galleries across Europe and Asia, developing projects that are both accessible and critical.
