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Family Background

Rolf Sachs was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, to Anne-Marie Faure and Gunter Sachs

Gunter Sachs

Fritz Gunter Sachs was a German photographer, author, industrialist, and latterly head of an institute that researched claims of astrology. As a young man he became a sportsman, then gained international fame as a documentary film-maker and documentary photographer...

, the accomplished German industrialist, photographer, author and socialite descended from the well-known Sachs-Opel industrial families.

Rolf Sachs went to school at Le Rosey, Rolle/Gstaad and the Lyceum Alpinum, Zuoz. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Menlo College, Menlo Park, California. He is married to Iranian born author Maryam Sachs; they have three children Philipp, Frederik and Roya Sachs.

Art and Design

Accomplished artist and designer, Rolf Sachs is renowned for his distinctive multi-disciplinary approach. His body of work includes furniture and lighting, set design for opera and ballet, photography and architectural and interior design projects.

Sachs has had a passion for modern and conceptual art since his childhood. A purist by education as well as nature, he has been heavily influenced by art that surrounded him from an early age. It was not until the mid-Eighties that he started working professionally in the creative world, setting up his studio in London in the mid-Nineties.

Sachs’ work was initially inspired by the principles of minimalism. Restrained decoration, deconstructed right angles and sharp corners were the defining characteristics of his work, predominantly made from felt and solid wood – natural materials with a ‘soul’. His work, however, has progressed over the years, becoming more experimental and conceptual and therefore not as easily definable; he is inspired just as easily from a museum as from a hardware store or physics laboratory.

Rolf Sachs has exhibited worldwide at major design venues and exhibitions including gabrielle ammann// gallery at Design Miami Basel, Phillips de Pury & Company New York, Monica Sprüth Cologne

Sprüth Magers Berlin London

Sprüth Magers is a commerical art gallery owned by Monika Spüth and Philomene Magers, with spaces in London and Berlin, representing such artists including Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Andreas Gursky, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel...

and Faggionato Fine Arts in London. Some of his major set designs include the Faust opera which debuted at Wiesbaden Staatstheater and was turned into a ballet, debuting at the Monte Carlo Ballet and touring globally. In March 2009, Sachs completed the set design for Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma” at the Opera de Monte Carlo.

Rolf and his wife Maryam collaborated on a photographic project entitled The Wild Emperor where a stationary camera, over a period of a year captured, every 10.5 minutes, the Wild Kaiser range of mountains outside their house in Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

Business Background

After completing his studies Rolf Sachs worked for his family’s business as a specialist and investor in the ‘alternative’ investment world. He is still active in the financial world and holds a number of advisory and board-level positions.

Life

Rolf Sachs is very much involved in St. Moritz

St. Moritz

St. Moritz is a resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland. It is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden...

life, an exclusive resort town in the Engadine Valley. Here, Sachs has a stadium home which he designed and renovated himself from the original Bauhaus building built for the 1928 Olympics (and reused again in 1948). He is president of Dracula Club, a private members’ club in St. Moritz and a committee member of the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club which organises and manages the Cresta Run

Cresta Run

The Cresta Run is a natural ice 1,212.5 m long skeleton racing toboggan track in the Swiss winter sports town of St. Moritz, and one of the few runs dedicated primarily to skeleton. It was built in 1884 near the hamlet of Cresta in the municipality of Celerina/Schlarigna by Major Bulpett, eventual...

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Rolf Sachs is an international board member of Sotheby’s, Tate Modern and a trustee of the London Design Museum.

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