2024-10-22 08:39:00
October 22, 2024 · Orgatec will take place in Cologne this week. The “leading trade fair for modern workplaces” demonstrates that life and work can hardly be separated from each other – and that they flow into each other in the post-Corona era. We show twelve examples.
ROYAL BOOL
The UnternehmensForm (UF) has already turned a quarter of a century. The main architect of all this is the company’s founder, Alexander Seifried, who after completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter dedicated himself to design. His projects for the Stuttgart brand Richard Lampert are famous, such as the Lönneberga stackable bed. But his UF collections are also impressive. They can be made to measure and, like this shelving system, adapt to any need. Whether on the wall, as a divider or as a sideboard, the furniture can be transformed and expanded as desired.
HIGHCHAIR D 1
The D 1 office chair, which the Munich designer Stefan Diez designed in 2017 for the Swabian company Wagner based in Langenneufnach, is characterized by the specially developed Dondola seat joint. With it you move constantly, which relieves tension on the spine. Diez has now expanded the family with a high chair, also equipped with the small component under the seat that helps the health of the back.
TISCH BRIDGE
Dining table, dressing table, desk: Cologne designer Sascha Sartory’s very small design can be many things. It builds, so to speak, a bridge from room to room and across the entire house. Müller Möbelwerkstätten in Bockhorn in Oldenburger Land offers the laminate panels in the colors white and anthracite (CPL) and black (HPL). There are also shelves and a container coordinated with the table (desk).
SCHAUKEL LEYASOL
Summer is definitely over, but who says you can only swing in the garden and in the sun. Up to three people can find space on the 164 centimeter wide rocking sofa, which is part of a whole series of chairs, armchairs, sofas and loungers, for indoors and outdoors. It was developed by the Hamburg office Hoffmann Kahleyss Design (Birgit Hoffmann and Christoph Kahleyss) for the Freifrau brand, which is based in Lemgo near Bielefeld.
DUO CARPET
The term sustainability is often just an empty phrase. Carpets are made up of up to 30 different materials that can neither be separated nor recycled efficiently at the end of their use. The Denkendorf Object Carpet company in the Esslingen district has managed to produce carpets using only two materials: the pile is polyamide and the backing is polyester. Both substances can be separated using heat and recycled. Step by step, the entire range of more than 1,000 products will now be converted to the recyclable Duo technology.
DARK TISCH
The name comes from the Greek word “temenos” which means temple. The solid wood top rests on a concrete column. A table like an altar in the temple. Martin Bergmann of the Viennese design trio Eoos (Gernot Bohmann and Harald Gruendl) calls the design (for Walter Knoll) “a sculpture that makes the plate float”. The manufactured concrete base is shaped by hand and the surface is oiled with a hard wax seal.
CHAIR S243
Nearly 100 years ago, Marcel Breuer designed the first tubular steel chair, inspired by the handlebars of a bicycle. Since then the material has become an integral part of furniture construction. After all, it is a tradition at the Thonet company in Frankenberg. Austrian Frank Rettenbacher designed this stackable chair; he calls his design “timeless and reserved.” The seat and backrest are made of molded wooden parts, the four-legged frame is available chrome-plated and powder-coated in various colors.
LOJA LIGHT
Curt Fischer is considered the inventor of the adjustable light. David Einsiedler and Joke Rasch took over his company Midgard, founded in 1919 by the German engineer, in 2015. In addition to Fischer’s old designs, which they have republished in a new and modernized way, contemporary designers are now also working for Midgard. Sebastian Herkner follows the guiding principle given with his lamp. The curved paper lampshade can be used to “direct” the light from the hand-blown glass body. Herkner also remains true to himself: glass is a material he particularly likes and works with often.
TABLE M1
This table opens like a fan and is best placed freely in the room. Or – with the flat side – on the wall. Its designer, the universal artist Stefan Wewerka, who died in 2013 at the age of 84, is one of the German deconstructionists. The Magdeburg-born Berliner began working for the Lauenförde-based company Tecta in 1978. This Wewerka work was created in 1979 and is now being presented again at the Design Post in Cologne as a possible conference table and/or or dining room (with space for seven-eight people).
GEORGE CHIARO
This tripod also has a long history behind it. Tobias Grau, founder of the lighting brand of the same name, which is now continued only as Grau by his sons Timon and Melchior, designed it in 1996. The brothers now present the lamp as George Black in black and limited to 100 pieces. And in two sizes, 130 or 160 centimetres. Not only are the wooden legs black, the head is also black at first, but after switching on it glows red from the inside. “It was new,” says Tobias Grau about his work, “and remains unique to this day.”
SOFA DS-909
The name is to be understood literally: the Swiss brand de Sede (from the Latin “sitting”) talks about sitting. The processing of animal skins has played a particularly important role right from the beginning, since master saddler Ernst Lüthy made the first leather furniture by hand in Klingnau, Aargau, in the early 1960s. This extendable sofa in fabric and leather was designed by the Yonoh studio in Valencia, founded in 2006 by Clara del Portillo and Alex Selma.
FAIR CHAIR
There are many swivel chairs for the office. This should be particularly sustainable. A big problem is the padding covers, which get dirty or wear out quickly. That’s why Simon Stiefböck (for Bene) has developed a patent-pending coating technology in which covers can be easily removed, washed and replaced. The designer, born in 1990 in Eggenfelden, Lower Bavaria, managed to save almost a third of the material otherwise necessary for the mesh back. It is also made of fully recyclable polypropylene.
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