PRODUCTS:
Wilkhahn
The success story of this multiple award-winning office furniture manufacturer started in the early nineteen fifties, when architects and designers began to introduce new designs.
Wilkhahn then continued to focus on design by engaging in a close cooperation partnership with the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung): To this day, Wilkhahn design is based on improved quality of use, timeless design and long product life.
Wilkhahn’s special market position – with representations in all developed national economies and on all continents - has been demonstrated by its being awarded the German Marketing Prize (1992) and the German Environmental Prize (1996) and by a major exhibition on the subject of "The Future of Work" on the occasion of EXPO 2000.
The company’s product focus is on high-end conference furnishings and office chairs as well as lounge furniture.
Clients include leading businesses from finance and insurance, industry and services as well as public administration, educational institutions, advertising agencies, lawyers’ offices and private design lovers.
Wilkhahn products are convincing by their typical simplicity, fascinatingly reduced design, longevity and user-friendliness: Design "Made in Germany" at its best.
Not only that: The design of Wilkhahn’s head office is an experience in itself. The processing facilities designed by Frei Otto (1988) and the assembly halls by Thomas Herzog (1992) are considered superb samples of modern building engineering, encountered in any lexicon on architecture.
wiege
wiege Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, an offspring of the Wilkhahn development department established in 1985, is now an independent design office in its own right. Today wiege is an international design office not only working for Wilkhan but for other renowned clients in other industrial and cultural branches as well.
wiege aims to develop products with timeless design that work for a long time.
Good product design is viewed as functional, unmistakeable and distinct. The structure of an object cannot be dissociated from its technological, economic, social and cultural contexts. The company’s product philosophy is based on functionality, systemic concepts, reduced design and socio-ecological responsibility.
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