Comfortable and healthy: the Swiss pine lounger from the Luttinger joinery

Anyone who settles down on a Swiss pine lounger from the Luttinger joinery in Biberwier will be glad they did. Physically, mentally, and spiritually. Years of craftsmanship bring together its gentle sway with healing infrared radiation and structure-borne sound technology. The Luttinger lounger is a unique feel-good health product.

Simply by breathing, the lounger begins to vibrate gently in all directions. Until a sense of weightlessness sets in. How does this work? It’s the arched base on which the ergonomic lounger rests. It took four years and no less than 20 prototypes until the Luttinger joinery in Biberwier, run by Josef Luttinger and his team, hit upon the ideal design. An infrared module was then added to the lounger’s backrest.

Luttinger joinery: an ideas factory

The latest innovation at the Luttinger joinery: the reclining surface, redesigned as a membrane, conducts the music’s vibrations gently yet tangibly into the body. ‘Our lounger is now an expert in vibrations that are good for mind, body, and soul,’ says the master carpenter. And it is made exclusively of Swiss pine. That’s good for wellbeing, too: the wood, which grows at high alpine altitudes, is antibacterial and exudes a distinctly pleasant scent proven to lower the heart rate and promote regeneration.

Countering stress and burnout

Luttinger loungers are the antithesis of short-lived lifestyle products. Nowhere else are infrared systems or structure-borne sound so precisely attuned with physical wellbeing as in the handcrafted, precisely designed loungers. Luttinger has had their positive effect verified by doctors, with ECG measurements showing falling stress levels within a short time and relief even for burnout patients. Depending on the need for healing, Josef explains, ‘we can play in the appropriate frequency music, up to the earth’s own “heartbeat” of 7.8 hertz.’

As fate would have it ...

Just 15 years ago, the Luttinger joinery was a regular carpentry workshop. Founded by his grandfather in 1920, Josef Luttinger took the helm two generations later. The company did a lot of work for the hotel industry, its main business comprising the construction and interior finishing of lounges and guest rooms. Even back then, they worked with Swiss pine, increasingly valued by clients for its striking appearance. But Josef was looking to create new opportunities, and in a turn of fate he hit upon a great idea. A hotelier asked him to install infrared cabins in four new suites, and to make them from Swiss pine – a novelty in the hotel industry and a first for the carpentry trade.

Lying > sitting

Josef got down to work immediately. The cabins were the result of much experimentation; the Swiss pine gave off its distinct aroma and the infrared heaters worked. But that wasn’t all for the Luttinger joinery. Josef was bothered by the benches themselves: ‘You felt like a stiff tin soldier.’ He wanted more comfort, and developed a swivel chair, also with integrated infrared elements. It quickly became clear to him, however, that lying is more beneficial than sitting. This was the beginning of four eventful years crowned by the completion of the Luttinger lounger.

Customers of the Luttinger joinery

Today, the Luttinger joinery manufactures up to 150 loungers a year. All the pine wood parts they need are made exclusively in-house. Since 2022, production has been supported by the company’s own upholstery workshop. The company has ten employees and delivers to customers in the German-speaking countries and adjacent European countries. Perhaps surprisingly, only ten percent of its products go to hotels or spa resorts; 90 percent are private customers. It’s predominantly hotel guests who have tried Luttinger loungers or cabins and have acquired a taste for them, says Josef. ‘Most of our enquiries come from word-of-mouth recommendations,’ he adds. Sometimes even guests on holiday in the Tiroler Zugspitz Arena stop by during their stay to check out the joinery.