About me
Welcome to my website!
I am Zoltán Kozma, the founder and CEO of Retroger Furniture ART. I was born in Hungary in 1979, my manual skills and love for cars were already evident as a child...
When I was 18 years old, I designed and built my first self-designed and built car, a very light and powerful roadster, which I named Hannibal. The 720 kg roadster was built with a 320 hp Cosworth engine.
During my studies, I already ran my first business, which produced further versions of the Hannibal Roadster, but I also built Lotus Seven replicas and other unique vehicles...
In 2003, I organized an expedition and traveled the journey of the Punic general Hannibal with one of my Hannibal Roadsters and a few supporter vehicles. In 42 days, we drove over 17,000 km on the roads of Africa and Southern Europe, following the general's route. The trip received a lot of international media attention...
In the years that followed, I designed and manufactured unique transport and food trailers in addition to roadsters. My products have found buyers in Europe and the USA. A big advantage of my work was that I was able to implement the products I designed, be it a sculpture, a piece of furniture or a vehicle, from the first drawing to the finished product and that is still the case today.
Due to European bans on the production of custom cars, I moved to the USA in 2006 at the behest of American partners, where I settled in the state of Oregon and founded a joint venture with the head of the US automobile plant Fiberfab, Dan Richer.
USA Custom Car Builders quickly took me on and I made great friends and business contacts. Among others, I developed a good relationship with the founder of Midstates Cobra, Bob Kallio, but I also worked a lot with Shell Valley Cobra and was also involved in the production of several custom cars in the United States.
Among other things, I designed and built the entire body of the Milner Flying Car with Dan Richer.
In addition, of course, I continued to produce food trailers and other unique products, sculptures and furniture and brought a lot of joy to my customers.
In 2012, I left the United States with a heavy heart and moved to Germany because of family reasons, where I got married. At that time, my focus was directed towards furniture production, as there was an increasing demand for high-quality oil barrel furniture. In addition, using my knowledge of the automotive industry, I developed my car-shaped furniture family, such as the VW Sofa, Cobra and Mustang furniture.
Thanks to the extremely high quality and durability of my furniture, furniture production boomed very quickly, and my waiting list has been full of orders for the past 10 years. In 2016, at the request of Volkswagen, we started working together, first with the legendary T-1 furniture types and then with my own developed furniture. Thanks to this, I have had close and very successful cooperation with the Brisa -Vw Collection team for 8 years, thanks to this, from the USA to New Zealand...my furniture can be found everywhere...
I personally check all my finished custom made, or small series furniture. From small furniture series, I make the first piece of furniture by myself, then my extremely talented and reliable suppliers reproduce these, but the final assembly I make in any case.Then I check the quality and confirm this with my signature.
For this reason, my production capacity is limited, but only then can I guarantee the high quality. Many of my customers are returning guests, many of whom I have become friends with over the years. Please take a look at the furniture on my website and contact me if you have any questions or want to order. In addition to the products shown here, of course, I can of course also design and implement other unique ideas or wishes.
I hope you enjoy my website.
Sincerely yours,
Zoltan Kozma
