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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...

Wilkhahn is one of those SMEs that evolves with each new generation. The company was founded as a business that crafted chairs made of beech by Christian Wilkening and Friedrich Hahne in 1907. When Fritz Hahne, the founder’s son, joined the company in 1947, the company quickly became very design focused. Design is a concept that didn’t take on its present-day meaning unt...

Wilkhahn started collaborating with Friso Kramer back in the early 1960s. Fritz Hahne, Wilkhahn’s CEO at the time, had seen the Revolt Chair, a simple but nevertheless sophisticated multipurpose chair designed for the Ahrend Group, in an architecture magazine. The meeting with the designer at a Dutch Wilkhahn dealer’s gave rise to successful joint projects and a lifelong...