Office 4.0 is all about two core issues. Firstly, how do we keep employees consistently healthy and productive? And secondly, what key role do offices play when people can work at any time and from anywhere?
Wilkhahn has created a new film with an intriguing look behind the scenes. Snapshots of the recently completed shoot provide a sneak preview.
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.