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Stylish? Athletic? Flexible? The most important thing is that you keep on moving while sitting. Recently, the Centre for Health at the German Sport University Cologne used the latest scientific measurement methods to prove that back muscles are much healthier when people sit on Wilkhahn’s IN office chair. Wilkhahn calls this new generation its free-to-move office chairs ...

If you wander onto the site of the Anker bread factory in Vienna, you could be forgiven for thinking you’re in London, Amsterdam or even New York rather than Austria’s capital on the Danube. With its historical industrial architecture, this complex of galleries, studios, offices, lofts, eateries, event spaces and showrooms has a charm all of its own. Today, the bread fac...

Anyone going to Design District Rotterdam from 6 to 8 June 2018 can expect an exceptional show. It all starts with the location: the Van Nelle Factory is a UNESCO World Heritage Site where coffee, tea and tobacco were packaged in the past. The facilities have been in the hands of creatives since the end of the 1990s. The space has offices, shops and display sections and ...

Going to Clerkenwell is a must for anyone interested in architecture and design. Since the 1990s, many of the traditional brick houses and factory buildings have been converted into workshops, architect and design studios. At the same time, the tradition of craftsmanship is wherever you look because graphic designers, watchmakers or goldsmiths have been working in Clerke...

Stuttgart architects blocher partners sympathetically transformed the newly opened Lower Saxony state parliament building in the state capital of Hanover from a listed ensemble, consisting of the Leine Palace and Oesterlen Building, into contemporary architecture. At the same time, they added a new internal structure to the ensemble that doesn’t just meet the highest tec...

Wilkhahn’s new mAx folding table has just received an Iconic Award in the Innovative Interior category at the imm international furniture fair in Cologne. And the judging panel of the iF Design Awards has now given it an accolade too. The 63-strong panel of one of the world’s oldest independent design organisations, iF International Forum Design GmbH in Hanover, gave the...

Who would have thought that short films on smart table and chair systems from Bad Münder in north Germany wouldn’t just appeal to us, but thousands of people worldwide as well? And figures posted in early February 2018 speak for themselves: Wilkhahn’s product and corporate films have achieved one million views on YouTube. This total shows that both our products and our d...

Until now, Wilkhahn Asia Pacific’s manufacturing facilities, management and showroom have been under one roof in Sydney’s Alexandria neighbourhood. The ability to experience the products being manufactured, used and displayed in one place did hold a certain charm, but involved having to make compromises too, for example in terms of visibility and location where customers...

An appealing, stimulating and child-friendly environment is very important for young patients to get well. After all, there’s a lot of truth in the saying that laughter’s the best medicine. The Belgian manufacturer and office furnisher Pami consistently based the designs of the rooms at the Princess Elizabeth children’s hospital at Ghent University Clinic on children’s n...

Project: "Blavatnik School of Government" Location: Oxford, GB Architect: Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, CH Wilkhahn ranges: Modus office task chairs Completion date: 2015 Photography: Wilkhahn

Ernst and Young management consultancy is a global player. The concept behind the redesign of EY’s Polish arm reflects its actively practised corporate philosophy. The concept’s entitled Workplace of the Future and one that EY applies to its consultancy services too. The corporate designers at Massive Design (Warsaw) planned the appropriate interiors. The basic idea is t...

The office environment is going through a period of transition: digitization now makes it possible for us to work in any place at any time. Employees see this change as giving them more independence, while companies hope to achieve sustainable levels of productivity from motivated staff. This is where the French planning agency Génie des Lieux comes in with an innovative...

Tokyo often causes a stir with spectacular buildings and plays with visions of the future such as a new neighbourhood off the coast of this mega-city. As a residential and office building, the Akasaka Intercity Air has been a new addition to the cityscape since September 2017. Some 32 storeys plus a penthouse tower above the city. Three underground storeys also belong to...

The architect Benjamin Ellwanger and ellwanger menzel architekten ingenieure created goals with Sparkasse LeerWittmund that they wanted the building to achieve. These included open-plan spaces to encourage team building and communication, no hierarchies and workspaces evident in the architecture, natural and high-quality materials, matt surfaces, a range of different wor...

Type: Meeting room Location: Spain Year: 2014 Firm: Burodécor

Anyone afraid of pink, blue and green? Clearly not British architect James Stirling who designed the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart in 1984. The building, which is now preserved as a historic monument and acts as an extension of the classicist Alte Staatsgalerie, is a prime example of post-modernist architecture. The museum is clad in strips of travertine and sandstone....

Diversity, excellence and integrity are the challenging principles that global law firm McDermott Will & Emery ascribes to. In addition to an impressive number of global players as its clients (70 percent of which are DAX companies for example), the firm is also committed to giving back to the community and pro bono work. It employs over 2,300 people worldwide in offices...

What do a Bentley and a Wilkhahn Graph chair have in common? A classy, distinctive silhouette, high-quality materials, such as sophisticated leather and perfect die-cast aluminium components, superb features and the desire to (quite literally) get hold of such a sought-after object. Designed by jehs+laub, the conference chair cuts quite a dash in Bentley’s Madrid showroo...

Back in the 1950s it was a fabric warehouse, but nowadays the building at Greifswald station is the location for Riemser Pharma’s offices. Interior designers Reuter Schoger Architekten (Berlin) recently converted the building for the company, which specialises in marketing and selling pharmaceuticals. Back in 2015 they had already redesigned its Berlin branch. The capsul...

The new Aula, available from January 2018, is an exceptionally lightweight and hard-wearing multipurpose chair that offers superior comfort and support. Designer Wolfgang C.R. Mezger drew on decades of proven experience in the process. Comprehensive sitting tests consistently helped to hone the seat shell to perfection. Its three-dimensional form embraces people’s bodies...

Wilkhahn won its first iF Design Award exactly 50 years ago. The north-German furniture manufacturer was first awarded the prestigious prize in 1967 for three chairs created by architect and designer Professor Georg Leowald. In 2017, Wilkhahn again garnered two awards, one for the stylish Occo shell-structure chair (design: jehs+laub) and a second one for the Metrik cant...

Back in the 1950s it was a fabric warehouse, but nowadays the building at Greifswald station is the location for Riemser Pharma’s offices. Interior designers Reuter Schoger Architekten (Berlin) recently converted the building for the company, which specialises in marketing and selling pharmaceuticals. Back in 2015 they had already redesigned its Berlin branch. The capsul...

Chesser House in Adelaide, Australia, consists of two building segments that could hardly be more different: while the plinth with its brick facade stems from the colonial era, the 12-storey office high-rise with its blue reflective glass facade is typical of post-modernism. Centred arches complete the facade at the top, whereas protruding sections and slanted edges stru...

Brands of Scandinavia is a Danish fashion group representing several Scandinavian fashion labels. The interior designers at Paustian created a new office space with crisp black and white conference for the company’s headquarters in Kolding in the south of Denmark. The one-and-a-half storey interior is covered by a pent roof, lending it a calm almost graphic look. In area...

The idea was to provide a contrast to the two-dimensional occupation of sitting in front of a screen. The designer was asked to come up with a lively atmosphere, inspired by the world’s distribution centres, by providing motion-driven workspaces. When devising the new office for logistics software specialist Adur in the Basque town of Hernani, interior designer Ricardo V...

The variety of Wilkhahn’s range in all sorts of different settings is on show on the eighth floor of the historic Starrett-Lehigh building with conference rooms, teamwork spaces, single offices and even a patio offering not just inspiration to visitors, but also a contemporary workspace for Wilkhahn’s New York staff. Design studio Gensler, who Wilkhahn has already collab...

Tokyo often causes a stir with spectacular buildings and plays with visions of the future such as a new neighbourhood off the coast of this mega-city. As a residential and office building, the Akasaka Intercity Air has been a new addition to the cityscape since September 2017. Some 32 storeys plus a penthouse tower above the city. Three underground storeys also belong to...

Diversity, excellence and integrity are the challenging principles that global law firm McDermott Will & Emery ascribes to. In addition to an impressive number of global players as its clients (70 percent of which are DAX companies for example), the firm is also committed to giving back to the community and pro bono work. It employs over 2,300 people worldwide in offices...

Whether it’s chosen for executive offices, lounges or homes: Wilkhahn’s PrintStool One’s special appeal comes to the fore in all sorts of different backdrops. Thorsten Franck’s design has now also impressed the judges of the bdia ausgesucht! competition held by the Association of German Interior Designers (bdia). PrintStool One came first among 45 submissions from 29 mem...

When designing rooms requiring superior acoustics, it’s important to be aware of the surfaces’ absorption characteristics. By taking appropriate measurements the progression of sound waves can be identified. Basically, anything that’s smooth and hard reflects strongly and therefore encourages annoying echoes or long reverberations. On the other hand, soft or porous surfa...

Founded in 2007, investment company Rocket Internet invests in e-commerce starts-ups and gives them comprehensive service and support functions as well as office space with state-of-the-art infrastructure. With gross floor space of 22,000 sq m and over 2,000 workspaces, the new start-up campus and headquarters in the Rocket Tower near to Kochstrasse in Berlin is somethin...

The architect Benjamin Ellwanger and ellwanger menzel architekten ingenieure created goals with Sparkasse LeerWittmund that they wanted the building to achieve. These included open-plan spaces to encourage team building and communication, no hierarchies and workspaces evident in the architecture, natural and high-quality materials, matt surfaces, a range of different wor...

What do a Bentley and a Wilkhahn Graph chair have in common? A classy, distinctive silhouette, high-quality materials, such as sophisticated leather and perfect die-cast aluminium components, superb features and the desire to (quite literally) get hold of such a sought-after object. Designed by jehs+laub, the conference chair cuts quite a dash in Bentley’s Madrid showroo...

There’s no question about it, the chancellor’s testimony to the NSA committee of inquiry on 20 March this year was a historic event. In this case, Angela Merkel is the focus of the most controversial affair during her period of office. The key issue of the committee’s hearing, chaired by Patrick Sensburg (of Germany’s CDU party) at Paul-Löbe-Haus, was what she knew about...

Project: Lunch restaurant at the Van Nelle Factory Location: Rotterdam Architects: Brinkman & van der Vlugt (1925-31) Interior design: Wessel de Jonge Architecten (2016) Head of redevelopment: Wessel de Jonge Architecten (1999-2004) Completion: 2016 Photography: Stijn Poelstra for Wilkhahn

Project: “The Loft”, the transformation of a warehouse into an office for 180 people Completion date: September 2015 Address: Klingenbergstraße 1-3, 32758 Detmold Floor space: approx. 2,800 square metres plus a 600-square-metre showroom Client: Wortmann Internationale Schuhproduktionen, Detmold Architect: Andre Rohde, Detmold Interior designer: Antje Pegger f...