LIGNO IN-RAUM celebrates 30-year anniversary
Emmen - The Emmen-based interior design firm LIGNO IN-RAUM is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The company specializes in creating individual identities for hotel and restaurant spaces, as well as prestigious business premises and comfortable environments for healthcare and nursing settings.
LIGNO IN-RAUM is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2026. The interior design firm from Emmen in the canton of Lucerne was founded in 1996 by Guido Henzmann. His young team initially focused on small-scale hotel facelift projects. According to a statement, the company gradually started to become established as a full-service provider and creative designer of room concepts. These days, LIGNO specializes in creating unique spaces for hotels and restaurants, as well as prestigious business premises and comfortable environments in the healthcare and nursing sectors.
After 23 years at the helm, Henzmann handed over management of the company to his daughter, Sara Henzmann, and to Peter Kunz in April 2019. At that time, Sara Henzmann had already been a member of the executive board for a year and was responsible for the Human Resources, Finance, and Marketing departments. She has been with the company since 2015. As a graduate in Hotel and Restaurant Management (HF) from the Swiss Hotel Management School Lucerne, she brings an understanding of the demands and requirements of hospitality businesses to the table.
Peter Kunz has been with LIGNO since 2014. At the time of the handover, he was also a member of the Management Board with responsibility for planning. As an interior designer, he is behind the distinctive design language employed by the company. The company statement cites properties throughout German-speaking Switzerland as hallmarks of the leadership duo and their team, including the Boutique-Hotel GuardaVal in Scuol in the canton of Graubünden, the Hotel Schweizerhof in Lucerne, Zurich’s Bar am Wasser, the Seehotel Waldstätterhof in Brunnen in the canton of Schwyz and the Parkhotel Margna in Sils-Baselgia, also located in the canton of Graubünden.
According to the company, 30 years signifies “one thing above all: A solid foundation that allows us to continually embrace new things”. For Sara Henzmann, asking questions, listening and understanding have always been the “basis of long-term collaboration – and our recipe for success”. In the view of Peter Kunz, good design “thinks beyond the moment. It is rarely loud, but rather sophisticated, distinctive and natural. Bringing together enterprise and design creates a form of symbiosis: The space works properly, helps to create atmosphere and simply feels right”.
