The LEISE Design Studio was founded in 2003 by graduate designer Knut Völzke in Frankfurt am Main. With his team, he develops and realizes projects and products with a focus on context-related and integrative design.

Facilities are created for private and public spaces as well as trade fair, exhibition and museum projects, from individual exhibits to international traveling exhibitions. A particular focus is on the tension between narrative and didactic design for popular science topics (public science).

In parallel to the context-related works, LEISE also stands for a furniture label that Knut Völzke developed in 2004. A short time later, the first collection was selected for talent shows and special exhibitions, and presentations followed in Frankfurt, Cologne, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Mumbai, Las Vegas and New York, as well as several international design awards.

In all design tasks, LEISE understands quality and beauty as criteria that are not limited to the useful life of objects or rooms. A cross-media approach as well as socio-cultural and ecologically sustainable contexts form the self-image of the design studio's integrative design.

Knut Völzke traces the focus of his studio back to his practice-oriented biography as head of a workshop for furniture and interior design (master craftsman's certificate 1996), as well as to his studies at the Academy of Design in Münster, followed by studies at the University of Design in Offenbach, where he also worked as a lecturer and substitute professor from 2010 to 2021.