The German Design Council invited guests to a special book launch in Berlin in mid-September. This year’s edition of The Major German Brands was introduced to the Minister of Culture, Professor Monika Grütters, and a whole host of guests from the worlds of business, politics and culture. Wilkhahn is also part of the select group of companies presented by the German Design Council.
We can’t say for certain whether the 19 “crazy easy ways” you can be healthier in the office really all work. But the tips from The Muse, the US recruitment agency, are definitely worth a read – particularly since some of them could have stemmed from Wilkhahn’s Office for Motion concept…
We had the pleasure speaking to Mr. Marcus Foley, Founding Partner and Group Managing Director at PDM International. Here are some insights from his 20 years in the design industry.
From a regal throne to an everyday object is how you could briefly sum up the cultural history of the chair. It wasn’t until the industrialisation of chair production in the middle of the 19th century that sitting on chairs became possible for everybody. Across Germany, regional hubs for chair factories sprang up and experienced something of a boom thanks to vast supplies of timber. Some of these areas included Deister-Sünteltal in Lower Saxony, where Wilkhahn is still based today, as well as Rabenau in Saxony, where the 5th German Chair Builder Day will take place on 10 and 11 September.
“Reporting from the Front”: This title symbolises the dynamic interpretations of realities being shown by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, this year’s director of the Biennale, at the world’s most important international architecture exhibition. 2016 sees the fifteenth outing of the “Biennale di Architettura” in Venice.
The European Architectural Photography Prize is presented every two years and its theme this time is borders.
Just like the elite university of Oxford itself, the new building on the revered campus exudes exceptional class too. Herzog & de Meuron chose Wilkhahn’s benchmark Modus office chair as the seating for the big lecture theatre in the School of Government at Oxford.
A new building designed by Aalen-based Liebel/Architekten was commissioned by Volk- und Raiffeisenbanken in Markgröningen in south Germany. The goal is to develop communal space.