WertelOberfell

WertelOberfell is an industrial design studio founded in London in 2007 by Gernot Oberfell and Jan Wertel, both trained in industrial design at Stuttgart’s State Academy of Art and Design, a school built on the principles of the Ulmer Schule and the Bauhaus. The first German studio opened in 2010, and the practice now works from Klopstockstraße in Munich.

Its output ranges from consumer products, furniture and lighting to speculative design research, developed for start-ups, family businesses and global brands including Braun, Gillette, Oral-B, Siemens, Bosch, Philips, Panasonic, Sony, Bulthaup and Nowystyl. Work is held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and since 2025 it has been certified as an innovative research company under the German BSFZ scheme.