BULL & STEIN, a Brazilian-German collaboration, was founded in São Paulo by Cynthia Stein and Marcus Bull in 2000, celebrating a decade of commercial success in the manufacture and distribution of premium quality ceramic sculptures worldwide. Shortly after BULL & STEIN's global launch, famed Brazilian artist and designer Lisa Pappon joined the company and developed her extravagant collection of ceramic apple sculptures exclusively for BULL & STEIN. The Brazilian-born founder Marcus Bull then moved the company's headquarters to Germany, where Marcus had worked as head of the Bildhauerwerkstatt Berlin, a world-renowned sculpture workshop in Berlin.