About Us

EXYD was founded in 2006 by Detlef Schobert. Before founding EXYD, Schobert gained extensive experience in the construction supply industry. Under the guidance of Herzog & de Meuron, he developed a forming process that was first presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002. Schobert subsequently used this process to produce for the Edificio Forum in Barcelona a 140,000 sq ft cladding consisting of 29,000 different mosaic-like ceiling panels.

One of the first works of EXYD dealt with the design of the entrance gate at 40 Bond Street in New York (Herzog & de Meuron).

In 2009 the London architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands invited EXYD to produce a metal that looks like a water surface. Schobert experimented and in October 2009 Product Line EXYD-M was born: the world's first industrially produced ripple water panel. In the same year EXYD produced around 10,000 sq ft of ceiling and wall panels for Tsvetnoy Central Market.

Above: very first rippled water panel, made by EXYD, photographed at the Munich Viktualienmarkt to study the reflections of fruit and vegetables, 2009.

Below: Tsvetnoy Central Market, Food Department, Architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, Ceiling and Wall Panels EXYD, 2009.

Since then the contributions of EXYD often give attention to the topic "Water", predominantly in Europe, but also in North America, in the Gulf States and in Asia.