Bureau of Entropy is a design collective founded in 2025 by Marvin Julian Freund and Matthias Figurowicz, specializing in functional art and collectible design.
Bound by a lifelong connection, their shared journey began in the precise world of toolmaking craftsmanship. Here, they mastered the fundamentals of fine metalworking – turning, milling, filing, finishing. Years of hands-on experience became the foundation for a design sensibility rooted in precision and material intelligence.
Following this early phase, they each pursued individual academic paths: Freund immersed himself in architecture, focusing on spatial design and proportion, while Figurowicz studied mechanical engineering, delving deeply into structure, construction, and technical functionality. Over the years, both gained profound expertise in their respective disciplines – insights that would later form the building blocks of a shared creative vision.
In 2025, their paths converged once more on a professional level. Combining their different perspectives – aesthetic sensitivity and engineering precision – they founded Bureau of Entropy. Together, they develop objects that fuse architecture, technology, and craftsmanship into a reduced, often sculptural design language.
Bureau of Entropy designs lighting pieces and furniture that derive their impact from structural logic and visual clarity. Inspired by the raw materiality and forms of Brutalism, the utopian visions of the Space Age, and the geometric purity of ancient cultures, their works feel familiar without being derivative – like an abstracted echo of cultural memory.
Characteristic of their approach is a subtle connection technique: elements are joined without visible fixings. No screws, no seams disrupt the surface. Instead, friction and precise tension hold the structures together – silent, yet powerful.
At the heart of their design philosophy lies an engagement with entropy – the tendency towards disorder, manifesting in overloaded forms, conflicting materials, and blurred functionality. Like a system that, without intervention, would collapse into chaos. Bureau of Entropy counters this dynamic with order: geometry instead of randomness, structure instead of layering. Transitions are sharply defined, materials are reduced to their essence, and every function is distilled to its core.
The resulting objects possess an inner rigour and spatial tension – reduced, but never empty. Clear in form, precise in execution.
Aluminium is their material of choice – selected for its dynamic relationship with light.
In the morning, it reflects a golden warmth; during the day, it reveals a cool, futuristic precision; at night, light flows across its surface – refracted, guided, scattered.
This interplay creates a radiance that extends the object into the surrounding space.
In a present saturated with distraction, Bureau of Entropy formulates timeless, atmospheric, and minimalist objects that assert a quiet yet resolute presence – not filling spaces, but shaping them.
