Dante-Goods and Bads

Dante-Goods and Bads is a German design company founded in 2012 by artist Aylin Langreuter and industrial designer Christophe de la Fontaine. Based at Schloss Haggn in Neukirchen, Bavaria, the brand designs, develops, assembles, and distributes furnishings, lifestyle products, and accessories. Its philosophy centers on creating objects with associative and emotional qualities — warmth, content, memory, humor, and passion — rather than purely practical or efficient utility. The company describes its products as potential favorites or talismans, everyday objects that forge a personal connection with their owners. The brand's name itself signals its embrace of the full spectrum of human experience: the good, the bad, but never the ugly. Through collections that explore rule-based disorder, playful deconstruction, and computational aesthetics, Dante-Goods and Bads positions itself at the intersection of art, industrial design, and emotional storytelling. The company operates internationally, with a contact address in Germany and a website at dante.lu.

Dante-Goods and Bads was founded in 2012 by artist Aylin Langreuter and industrial designer Christophe de la Fontaine. The two founders share a profound love of the material world, and they established the company as a fragile yet highly ambitious endeavor. From its base at Schloss Haggn in Neukirchen, Bavaria, the brand set out to design, develop, assemble, and distribute furnishings, lifestyle products, and accessories. The company's philosophy diverges from the traditional design imperative of practicality and maximal usability. Instead, Dante-Goods and Bads pursues what it calls another desire: warmth and content. Its filter for creation is to build a connection — to make material objects that are not merely things but favorites, talismans, and everyday products that are emotional rather than a priori practical. The brand's collections have explored themes such as rule-based disorder, using games as a metaphor for the deconstruction of rules. In one collection, the anatomy of the creative process took center stage, with the brand advocating productive misbehavior — disobeying rules to arrive at the unexpected. The visual aesthetic of that collection emerged from active engagement with computational systems, treating them as tools rather than sources of authorship, and embracing misunderstandings and unexpected outputs as part of the process. The company continues to operate from Germany with an international outlook, describing itself as a fragile and highly ambitious endeavor determined to persevere.

• 2012

  Dante-Goods and Bads founded by Aylin Langreuter and Christophe de la Fontaine.

• Brand based at Schloss Haggn in Neukirchen, Germany.

• Launch of rule-based disorder collection exploring games and deconstruction.

Emotional, associative design objects that prioritize warmth, memory, and personal connection over pure utility.

• Furnishings

• Lifestyle products

• Accessories

• Design objects and editions

1. 1Home - Dante Goods and Badsdante.lu
2. 2About us - Dante Goods and Badsdante.lu
3. 3Wikidata Q137916954wikidata.org