graph chair
Design Markus Jehs & Jurgen Laub,
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Metal, leather
"Designers Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub develop a new, high-end range of conference chairs for Wilkhahn. At the design's core is a seat shell that can be divided and put back together differently, with the armrests becoming the main link between the seat and the backrest. The original, unitary shell shape is still recognisable, but a high level of visual lightness is achieved by the cut-out section and open armrests.
The principle's benefit is that it is very easy to combine different types of seat and backrest heights to produce diverse models. Comfort also enjoys high priority. The concept includes the integration of three-dimensionally sprung comfort without involving any mechanics."
620 w | 640 d | 1490 h
Stuttgart designers Markus Jehs (left, born 1965) and Jürgen Laub (right, born 1964) have set a steady course for success. Whilst their day-to-day work consists of designs for such renowned brands as Cassina, Cor, Fritz Hansen, Nemo, Thonet or Ycami, flamboyant special projects like “room 606 – ice cracks” at the Ice Hotel in northern Sweden indicate the freshness of their approach and testify to the pleasure they find in pure design that does not pursue a concrete aim. Even so, their classic product and interior design projects are anything but boring. Jehs + Laub combine “German” virtues like functionality, formal stringency and clarity with extraordinary imagination in terms of their concepts and use of materials. Their solutions seem strikingly simple, a combination of aesthetics and logic that reveals itself at first glance. That may well be because they always start from a strong basic idea, as they say. “Ideally, a product will then develop all by itself.” Sounds simple. Just like their concept for the new Mercedes Benz showroom that has been implemented worldwide: the rectangle, compasses and triangle or set square stand for product stage, communication and space segmentation. The space chair for Fritz Hansen already looks like a classic and uses different covers to show a variety of faces – sometimes business-like, sometimes trendy.
Wilkhahn, based in Bad Münder, near Hannover, is a German manufacturer of office furniture. The brand is well known for its range of ergonomic office chairs and tables. Founded in 1907 by Friedrich Hahne and Christian Wilkening. The name of the two founders was later used to create the name Wilk-hahn in 1954.
