Markus Jehs and Jurgen Laub have met eachother during the academic studies of industrial design and became friends after an internship in New York in 1990.

After they graduated in 1992 they set up jehs + laub in 1994. From that time on they started to design furniture and lamps for Italian companies, such as Cassina, Fritz Hansen, Knoll International, and Stelton. For Mercedes- Benz they designed the master concept of the worldwide showrooms, numerous interior designs and exhibitions, such as the 'suite 606' at the world famous Icehotel in North Sweden.