Xpat Interview: Ottó Feuertag, Owner & Founder, Europa Design in Budapest

  • 22 Feb 2010 11:00 AM
Xpat Interview: Ottó Feuertag, Owner & Founder, Europa Design in Budapest
He is a proud father of 2, a happy husband, and founder of Europa Design which has been on the market for decades. His company is a consulting and furnishing firm that equips spaces for clients according to Well Certification.

Europa Design helps organisations to transform workplaces into strategic assets that support employee wellbeing, productivity, and talent retention.

Beyond furniture procurement and interior fit-out, his company provides workplace strategy, space planning, wellbeing audits, and advisory services that help employers align their offices with modern workforce expectations.

1. Where did you grow up?

In Hungary, and Egypt.

2. If you could be an expat anywhere in the world, where would you choose?

New Zealand or Scotland.

3. What would you miss most if you moved away from Hungary?

Family, and local food!

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?

Take a river ride, walk in the downtown, see a ballet at our Opera house, and have a party after in the Budapest Soho….

Next morning have a thermal experience in Gellért or Széchenyi bath, and have a late lunch in the Castle at Alabárdos.

5. What is your favourite food?

Gundel pancake

6. What is your favourite sport / form of exercise?

Road biking / doing 2-3 marathons 200km+ and Ironman relay

7. What is your favourite place in Hungary?

Our hideaway house in Tihany.

8. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?

Mystery shopping.

9. What’s a job you would definitely never want?

Bank Cashier.

10. Where did you spend your last vacation?

In Austria skiing.

11. Where do you hope to spend your next one?

France.

12. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?

Elvis, Once upon a time on the West, I ran a Rock and Roll Club in my High School.

13. Apart of temptation what can't you resist?

Hungarian cakes, home roasted and salted peanuts from Egypt.

14. Red wine or white?

White.

15. Book or movie?

Movie.

16. Morning person or night person?

Night.

17. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?

Children’s education.

18. Buda or Pest side?

Buda.

19. Which achievement in your life are you most pleased about?

Founding my company at the age of 24 and establishing the Hungarian Federation of Interior Decorators, at the age of 25.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?

Be creative and find the best questions! Smile and be open, forgive in moral questions, but never forget in business!

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