Wilkhahn - manufacturer profile

Philosophy

Environment and staff leadership
See things in perspective. Be attentive. Keep an inquiring mind. We have never believed in the idea of pure form: whoever designs furniture and interiors, does, in fact, design his or her environment and human relations. Aesthetics have always had an ethical dimension for us. For years we have consistently pursued new paths in design; for years we have been practising fair, responsible partnership. With nature, with our staff and with the technology which we employ.

The Federal Ecodesign Award was initiated by the Federal Ministry for the Environment and the Federal Environment Agency. The accolade pays tribute to products and services that fulfil aesthetic and ecological quality requirements in equal measure and therefore demonstrate a particularly high level of innovation. The 2012 prize-winners and nominees are now displayed in a touring exhibition. ON is also included and impressed the prominent panel of judges in several respects.

„In case of doubt, the ecological aspect has priority over quick profit.“ Mission Statement of the Administrative Board, 1989.
In 1992 we developed Picto, the first completely recyclable office swivel chair, and proved innovative products can be designed and produced ecologically. Environmental responsibility does, after all, start with product design. As a proactive thinker, we demonstrate our innovative strength in ecological matters too: with environmentally favourable product processes, in the utilization of environmentally compatible materials, with a sophisticated value-added packaging system, in waste disposal or in the utilization of low-solvent lacquer.

„No orders without explanations“
This phrase of Fritz Hahne's became the guideline for internal communication very early on. Decisions at Wilkhahn must always be legitimized by means of arguments and not hierarchies. Such a corporate culture produces strong, self-confident individuals who can identity with their work and who are totally committed.

Novelties

Confair Next

Design: 2024

Corporate Hybrid – Excellence for Hybrid Collaboration.

Collections

Conference & visitor chairs

Features

Integrative, flexible & open

10/31/2024

With the ‘Confair Next’ room modules, Wilkhahn offers a pioneering solution for true hybridity in the workplace, combining the different requirements of analogue and digital collaboration.

ORGATEC 2024 – REVIEW

Nervously in the flow

10/24/2024

How do we want to work in the future? What do we need for this? And which topics are crucial for the industry? Every two years, Orgatec, the leading international trade fair for modern working environments, provides an insight into the ideas and concerns that set the tone in the minds of creative professionals and entrepreneurs. Our review.

FEATURED

Intuitive wellbeing

10/14/2024

How does Wilkhahn teach seating to walk? And what are the benefits of dynamic sitting for people's health, such as the efficient furnishing of an office or home office? Carsten Gehner, Head of Product Pre-Development, in an interview.

FEATURED PREVIEW – ORGATEC 2024

Orgatec 2024: WILKHAHN

10/10/2024

At Wilkhahn, trade fair visitors can expect a pleasantly airy architecture on over 450 square metres: Michael Englisch, head of the design and development department, and his team have devised a sustainable structure made of aluminium surrounded by a textile shell.

FEATURED

Fair to People and the Environment

10/26/2023

Environmental science graduate Jörg Hoffmann is the Sustainability Manager at German furniture manufacturer and international player Wilkhahn. In this interview he highlights what issues are key in its commitment to the environment and which goals are still on the agenda.

FEATURED PROJECT

Taking a seat at the stock exchange

3/14/2023

Wilkhahn has furnished the New York Stock Exchange's historic meeting rooms with jehs+laub's striking Graph conference chairs.

DESIGN

Stylepark Selected Award 2022

11/28/2022

With the Stylepark Selected Award 2022, Stylepark honours the best new products of the year. These are the award winners.

DESIGN

Wilkhahn 2022: YONDA

9/26/2022

With "Yonda", Wilkhahn offers a range of shell chairs designed by Neunzig°design, developed for the circular economy and suitable for both living and working environments.

DESIGN

Wilkhahn 2022: GRAPH ICONIC EDITION

10/14/2021

Wilkhahn's "Graph iconic edition" adds new top models to the "Graph" conference range.

FEATURED COMPETENCE

Graph Iconic Edition by Wilkhahn

10/7/2021

For the anniversary edition "Graph Iconic Edition", designers Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub expand the "Graph" collection to include upholstery. This not only provides additional comfort, but also a distinctive look.

MAGAZINE

Wilkhahn 2021: INSIT-SCREEN

8/17/2021

From a work sofa to a modular, screened-off retreat: the "Insit-Screen" wall elements for Wilkhahn's modular "Insit" bench system can be used to create variable room scenarios.

STYLEPARK WILKHAHN

Changing Scenarios

10/26/2020

Wilkhahn demonstrates what pioneering workplaces could look like – with a virtual office building.

STYLEPARK WILKHAHN

A realistic virtual building

10/13/2020

In collaboration with Wilkhahn the architects at Munich’s 1zu33 have designed a virtual office building at a real location as part of the “Human Centered Workplace” project. Georg Thiersch, managing partner of 1zu33, reveals more in our interview.

STYLEPARK WILKHAHN

Virtual master plan

10/6/2020

A blueprint for the new work office: Wilkhahn cooperated with architectural practice 1zu33 to develop a virtual reference project that supplies architects and office planners with inspiring best-practice examples for pioneering work environments.

FEATURED COMPETENCE

AT Mesh by Wilkhahn

9/9/2020

The "AT" series by Wilkhahn is the company’s third office chair program with the pioneering "free-to-move" mechanism. Precisely calibrated to match the human body, the three-dimensional flexible structure helps keep limbs and muscles active.

FEATURED COMPETENCE

AT Office Chair by Wilkhahn

5/22/2019

Wilkhahn has expanded its office-chair range to include the “AT” model, which was developed specifically with a view to flexible office concepts and desk sharing.

FEATURED COMPETENCE

Occo SC chair range by Wilkhahn

11/20/2018

Wilkhahn has added the new “Occo SC” chair version to its successful “Occo” table and chair range.

FEATURED COMPETENCE

Landing wall relief by Wilkhahn

10/23/2018

With the modular wall relief "Landing" from Wilkhahn, communication hubs are created even in narrow corridors, fostering idea exchange and teamwork within the company.

FEATURED

A communicating office

10/23/2017

For a pioneering bank building Wilkhahn has realized individual solutions.

FEATURED COMPETENCE

mAx and Aula by Wilkhahn

10/4/2017

Two new products prove just how intensively Wilkhahn has concerned itself with the topic of “flexible furniture”: The “mAx” folding table system and the stackable “Aula” multi-purpose chair.

FEATURED

Clear lines for conferences

11/22/2016

The Graph and Timetable conference furniture from Wilkhahn was selected for the conference rooms at the new headquarters of Dutch company Heerema.

FEATURED

A lunchbreak in World Cultural Heritage

10/10/2016

When redesigning the cafeteria in the former Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam, Wessel de Jonge Architekten took their cue from the original building, and featured contemporary furniture by Wilkhahn.

FEATURED

Lobby for Oxford

8/16/2016

Herzog & de Meuron’s new building in Oxford captivates visitors with its purist selection of colors and materials, as well as the comfortable furnishings including chairs by Wilkhahn.

FEATURED

Flexing muscles in the office

5/18/2015

Wilkhahn’s new “IN” office chair not only cuts a fine figure thanks to its fresh and young design, but above all it provides plenty of freedom, offering users outstanding comfort while staying dynamic and active as they sit.

FEATURED

Coworking with Wilkhahn in Modul 57

5/28/2013

Coworking spaces need not invariably look as if they were the living room in a flat share; for the Modul 57 project, the emphasis was on technical equipment and ergonomic chairs courtesy of Wilkhahn.

DESIGN

A cowboy has to be able to sit on it without looking stupid

10/20/2008

Construction

INTERVIEWS

Rethinking Products

4/21/2024

In 2013, Moritz Böttcher and Nikolaus Kayser started to run their design studio together in Berlin. Since then, they designing as Böttcher & Kayser consumer goods, furniture and luminaires, both themselves and for international clients from Ligne Roset to Stelton.

ORGATEC 2022 – REVIEW

Flexibility for stability

10/31/2022

Orgatec is back and with it a homely jigsaw puzzle that maps the development of different requirements in the working context since 2018. Our review.

NEW WORK

Elegant neighbor

4/20/2021

The Office Group, or TOG for short, recently opened "Oper46" – a set of flexible workspaces in the center of Frankfurt/Main. We took a look around.

SUSTAINABILITY

Cards on the Table

1/29/2021

The time is ripe for change: Stefan Diez has formulated ten requirements that he believes products should meet. He explains the concept to us in an interview.

NEW WORK

Back to the office

8/28/2020

Safe, hygienic, structured: how work environments can be adapted to suit the new normal.

DESIGN

Attractive stay-at-homers

3/24/2020

#Stayathome, to protect your own health and protect others from an infection with coronavirus – that is the order of the day right now. Stylepark outlines ten practical tips for working from home that will ensure you don’t need to go short on comfort.

ORGATEC 2018

The new informal

11/1/2018

Will we still work at desks in future? That was one of the many questions asked at Orgatec 2018 in Cologne. We review the trade fair.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Impressions of the Stylepark Selected Tours

10/29/2018

Zur Orgatec 2018 veranstaltete Stylepark gemeinsam mit Gloster eine exklusive Guided Tour zu den Highlights der Messe. Moderiert wurde die Tour vom Gründer und Vorstand von Stylepark, Robert Volhard.

STYLEPARK SELECTED ORGATEC 2018

Excellent!

10/23/2018

The Stylepark Selected Award Winners at the Orgatec 2018.

DESIGN

Style with substance

7/14/2017

Everybody is talking about sustainable production. Camira has been practicing it for years. The British textile manufacturer makes fabrics from stinging nettles, hemp and jute and is a great champion of recycling.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Pushing boundaries

2/9/2017

A stroke of luck: In his exhibition “Full House” at the MAKK in Cologne, Stefan Diez develops new perspectives on design in a globalized world and in so doing presents himself and how he works.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Convey the enthusiasm that in this job there’s still things to be achieved

1/5/2017

The exhibition “Full House: Design by Stefan Diez” is still being assembled at MAKK. But what is already clear is that what will go on display in Cologne will be far more than a simple show of his work. We talked in advance with Stefan Diez about his concept.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Do feel free to skip around

10/28/2016

The sector’s prospects are looking good. Since there are no longer any fixed spaces and new work concepts geared to the digital revolution are in demand, everything is being furnished: Impressions from the Orgatec 2016 trade fair.

DESIGN

Open Doors. Answer Right. Santa Claus. Christmas Bright!

12/1/2014

You know the ins and outs of design and architecture? Then take part in our special Stylepark Christmas Contest. Be it chairs, luminaires, or living room accessories – this year there are once again any number of great prizes to be won.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Work with love

10/24/2014

One thing is clear at this year’s Orgatec in Cologne: the lines dividing homes from offices are becoming very blurred. While the playful office world may still be a topic, work is being taken seriously again. We outline the key new products at the fair.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Of lenses and other lighting magic

4/10/2014

Small firms alongside large corporations, tiny components and immense spotlights for buildings: The manufacturers at Light+Building certainly extended our sense of dimensions. Which has resulted in records this year.

DESIGN

Presents, presents

12/1/2013

MAGAZINE

The longing for a studiolo

7/17/2013

With “7 Studies”, gallerist and furniture maker Jörg Schellmann is showing in Munich how seven renowned artists and designers, among them Stefan Diez, Liam Gillick and Donald Judd, are furnishing workspaces. And that they are not all that far from the Renaissance studiolo.

MAGAZINE

Open a door each day

12/23/2012

Do you know your architecture and design? Do you read our News&Stories articles, regularly receive our Newsletter or use our database for research? And do you like tackling tricky questions?

MAGAZINE

Forecasting offices

11/14/2012

On the silver screen and at Orgatec, office environments are depicted as having a life of their own. What kind of image of reality do they convey? A rummage through the film archives and walkabout in the trade fair halls.

MAGAZINE

What should offices be? A small town or a camping site?

10/29/2012

Orgatec 2012 in Cologne presents the 21st-century office as an urban landscape in colors as fresh as spring itself. Seldom does one feel so content at work – be it alone in a cocoon or in a meeting in a sheltered seating group.

MAGAZINE

Milan in four bags or: Design, theatrical, practical, feudal and universal

4/27/2011

Perhaps everything on show in Milan at the exhibition center in Rho, in the booths of Superstudio Più, in showrooms and back-yard workshops ultimately fits into four bags. Let’s see if it does. What would we write on the movable containers if we were to put in them the things we noticed among all the abundance?

MAGAZINE

Milan is here again

4/6/2011

En route for Milan. It’s that time of the year; the Milan furniture salon is just round the corner and the design world is in pandemonium. To give you an idea of the countless events throughout the city we have compiled a list of what we consider to be the most promising among them.

MAGAZINE

Cowboys stay mobile

4/6/2011

With “Chassis” by Stefan Diez, office furniture specialist Wilkhahn is presenting a chair at the Salone del Mobile in Milan that is more than just a chair and can do more than simply shine in an office or conference room. For “Chassis” is now also available with various fabric covers and interchangeable seat shells, Thomas Wagner spoke to Jochen Hahne, Burkhard Remmers and Stefan Diez about the “Chassis” system.