--- title: "Tom Stepp" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/tom-stepp" language: "en" type: "designer" description: "Individual designer items from Tom Stepp ✓ Wide range of products & designs ➜ Get inspired now" published: "2001-05-01T00:00:00+02:00" modified: "2026-04-26T17:12:18+02:00" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/apple-touch-icon.png" --- # Tom Stepp Helsingør, Denmark - [Biography](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/tom-stepp) - [Products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/designer/tom-stepp) - [Manufacturer](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/tom-stepp/manufacturer) - [Articles](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/tom-stepp/contributions) - [Website](http://www.tom-stepp.dk) Address: ## Tom Stepp 71 Strandgade DK-3000 Helsingør Denmark T: +45 (0)49 210305 [www.tom-stepp.dk](http://www.tom-stepp.dk) Products by Tom Stepp [![Groggy](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/n/northern-lighting/produkte/groggy/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/groggy-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/northern/groggy) [Northern Groggy](https://www.stylepark.com/en/northern/groggy) [![Cream](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/a/agapecasa/produkte/m/mitab/produkte/cream/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/cream-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/mitab/cream) [Mitab Cream](https://www.stylepark.com/en/mitab/cream) [All products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/designer/tom-stepp) Biography Tom Stepp had completed an impressive number of vocational training courses before graduating as an architect from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. As a carpenter, building technician and construction technician he had useful knowledge about the forces at work in a construction. Nonetheless, he has deliberately opted not to construct his own models. “I don’t want my limitations as a craftsman to determine what I can make. If I can’t plane a piece of wood, i t shouldn’t stop me using planed wood,” he says.His craftsman background has given him a pragmatic approach to furniture design.“Good design? Something it doesn’t hurt to sit on!” he smiles. Although he is one of t he most widely acknowledged Danish designers, he is not keen on the term ‘furniture art’, and his ideas often come when he discovers a need in his own everyday life. He designed the Prime Time easy chair when his daughter was little. He needed a chair they could both sit in at the end of the day while she watched television and he took a ten-minute break.“Prime Time appeals because it so clearly signals its underlying idea: “Come and relax in me!” it says. People get the mess age,” Stepp explains.