Moritz Putzier with Nola, Pintos and Spoonlight.
Moritz Putzier
Based in Cologne, Germany, industrial designer Moritz Putzier works at the intersection of people, objects and their environments. Since establishing his own studio in 2015, his work has explored familiar forms, everyday interactions and the small details that can change the way we experience an object.
For The Conran Shop, Moritz has designed three very different collections: Nola, a new pendant light; Pintos, a playful wall-mounted hook; and Spoonlight, a sculptural light exploring weight, balance and rotation, launching in December.
Early sketches exploring the distinctive ring detail of the Nola Pendant.
Moritz grew up surrounded by creative influences. His mother is an interior architect and his grandfather was a textile artist. He also lived next door to celebrated lighting designer Ingo Maurer and interned at his studio before finishing school.
“My approach often starts with looking at everyday things and situations from a slightly different angle.”
Curiosity and observation remain central to Moritz’s process. He looks for familiar forms and everyday situations that can be reinterpreted, often creating designs that suggest something recognisable without reproducing it literally.
Nola is available in three sizes and four colours.
For Nola, the starting point was not actually the traditional bell shape that eventually became one of its defining characteristics. Moritz was initially interested in the point where the cable leaves the lampshade. He wanted to create a break in the otherwise familiar form, introducing a small moment of surprise. During the drawing process, turning this detail into a ring created an unexpected association with a bell.
Made from solid ash, Pintos brings a playful character to the everyday hook.
Pintos began quite differently. Moritz initially imagined a family of small, rounded characters in different sizes. Through making and iteration, the forms became more angular, eventually developing the distinctive zigzag shape. The resulting hooks have an almost tree-like quality, although this was never the intention. That unintended association is something Moritz has come to enjoy. Pintos remains a small and useful object, but its playful character encourages you to think about how a collection of hooks can be arranged and used to animate a wall.
“There’s something playful about using them to animate your wall and create your own composition, while at the same time they’re simply very useful.”
Spoon Lamps, where weight and balance become the form. Launching December 2026.
With Spoon, the starting point was weight, balance and rotation. Rather than hiding the mechanisms that make the lamp work, Moritz made them central to its form. The result is a sculptural object with a strong physical presence, particularly in the floor version, while remaining intuitive to use.
Simple rounded and cylindrical forms are combined in different sizes and proportions, creating a lamp that reveals more of itself through interaction. The name Spoon came later, emerging from the shape during the design process.
“Rather than giving these mechanisms a form, I wanted the mechanisms themselves to become the form of the lamp.”
Across Nola, Pintos and Spoon, familiar associations appear in different ways. A bell, a tree, a spoon — none are represented literally, but each design carries a suggestion of something recognisable. For Moritz, that sense of discovery is part of the experience.