I love wood as a material, I really enjoy working with it.
I enjoy being creative, developing new things,
and being innovative.
I’m Johannes Müller.
I’m a master joiner and I’m doing an advanced training course as an interior and object designer.
We are a family business.
My grandfather founded the company with my grandmother.
Our company is founded on three pillars:
We have a joinery where we manufacture individual pieces
of furniture and built-in installations.
Then we have a kitchen studio.
The third pillar is trade,
where we sell high-quality brands such as Anrei and Thielemeyer.
This is how we can supply dream furniture to our customers.
I've been using Origin since it was available on the German market.
In the beginning I only had three Designs, which I really needed.
Then I noticed how precise the machine is.
How easy it is to use
and how simple it is to create designs, to visualize and implement them.
I’ve ended up with more than 35 designs and it’s an incredible time saver.
The fact that my masterpiece was finished in time with such quality
I owe largely to Origin.
This is a template from my masterpiece
and this is probably the template where I realised what possibilities there were
and how precise Origin actually is.
Here I have the mortise for the spring latch, the door stay and the hinges
embedded on this side in the frame with incredible precision.
I was able to adjust it a tenth of a millimeter at a time,
and insert my fittings so precisely, that they were 100% accurate.
Yes, it required trust, but my trust was rewarded.
You can say it has changed my workflow. It has digitized it.
Where before I would have had to make more plans,
now it’s enough for me, for example, with the table group,
to write the stock list with the final measurements of my parts,
but I take the rest directly from the drawing,
because I can do all the machining with Origin.
This means I also save time creating complex production drawings.
Instead, with simple parts, it’s enough to load the designs into Origin and cut them directly.
Even when it comes to the transfer of complex files and more demanding jobs,
I transfer the designs right to the tool in my workshop, and I’m immediately cutting.
This saves time because I don’t have to build templates or prepare anything beforehand.
Instead my design just goes straight from machine to machine.
I’m part of the third generation at Müller Einrichtungshaus.
I’ve completed my apprenticeship,
spent my journeyman years here,
and received my Master’s in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Now I’m pursuing a design degree.
And my sister has decided to take the same path.
She will become an interior designer.
Last but not least, my little brother is joining us.
He is also doing his apprenticeship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
This is going to be exciting! We've just completed our first project together—this chair.
The chair is my sister’s Bachelor’s degree project.
She designed it for her end-of-the-semester project.
And I supported them a little at the beginning in terms of the construction.
The design was her idea and then my little brother came into play.
We designed a chair together that can also be produced.
We cut everything from A to Z with the tool.
Apart from the table saw and the planer, we didn’t use any other stationary tools.
We used traditional handcrafted joints, which could not be produced efficiently anymore.
For the production of the chair we had to rely on templates.
To be able to process the round parts,
you need something to clamp it, to fix it in place.
And Origin was there for us all the way.
So here we see the template for the bent lamination of the backrest
That means we bent it around here
and the individual segments of the template are cut with Origin
Then the dowel holes were designed to be positioned them exactly
on top of each other and then glued together.
And then the back of the chair was to be bent around here
That was also a very, very exciting process for the three of us.
How we harmonised when working together, it worked out great.
I'm thrilled to see how the three of us develop
and where it will take us.
Often, I use Origin in combination with hand tools.
If you have to radius corners, then Origin really helps.
And then this last finish, for example the leftover corner, You finish it with the hand tool
I also like to use it for templates,
for example to use them with a table router.
It’s also super precise for preparation
it saves me a lot of time
and I can bring the work to stationary machines with the same precision.
The fact that I made the decision to purchase and use this tool,
—it’s changed my thought-process and has spurred my creativity.
It pushes the boundaries and opens up new possibilities.
And that's actually the biggest improvement I got from Origin.