When Salih walks into a room, his energy is infectious. He puts passion and emotion into every design, and aims to create products that people truly love. Our workshop is Salih’s favourite place, and his pencil is his favourite tool.

Salih is one of the reasons we focus on natural materials in our Gazzda products. He is internationally renowned for pushing the technological boundaries of wooden design furniture and helps many appreciate that magical moment when they touch a finely crafted product detail for the first time.

Salih shares his passion outside of Gazzda as well. He has been teaching industrial design to promising youngsters since 2004 as a tenured professor at the Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts. Among his students, Salih’s near-obsession with wood is so well known, they affectionately call him ‘Geppetto’.

When he’s not creating beautiful designs in our prototype workshop, you’re most likely to find Salih spending time with his family, or drinking his beloved Bosnian coffee in a café in downtown Sarajevo.