GINGER ZALABA – GRANDDAUGHTER OF BAUHAUS MASTER OTTO KOLB
Anyone growing up with this kind of heritage only really has two options. One option is to reject it and set out in a new direction because you do not want the continual comparisons – and this is exactly what Ginger Zalaba originally planned to do: in fact, she wanted to run a gallery. While studying art, she organized many exhibitions and travelled to Los Angeles for her first internship. However, at that point her father died at home in Switzerland, and at the age of twenty-six she became the head of the family business. She changed her mind and took on her Bauhaus legacy and reshaped it in her own way. She began to develop and consolidate her own ideas.
2015 Zalaba launched her first collection KOLB using her life savings. No risk – no fun! International exhibitions followed and led ultimately to a collaboration with Walter Knoll and a handful of design awards.
The Bauhaus gave us an aesthetic which has remained relevant for a hundred years. Ginger Zalaba manages to take on this aesthetic and develop it further in her own way of interior and furniture design: unusually different, yet sensuous and beautiful.