Comfortable and relaxing upholstered furniture’s no longer exclusive to lounges but now features in offices everywhere too. In the past, upholstered chairs and benches with backrests were limited to foyers and waiting areas, but nowadays they’re encountered in co-working spaces, areas in the middle of rooms, open-plan offices or company restaurants. Wilkhahn’s new Insit upholstered furniture range (design: Wolfgang C.R. Mezger) allows the creation of a variety of different settings with different moods, which, on the one hand, are places to withdraw to for peace and quiet and, on the other hand, encourage interaction and collaboration. What’s more, it can be used to divide spaces up into zones and improve acoustics.
Wilkhahn draws on long-standing experience in designing first-class sectional seating. Legendary examples are the 1200 waiting bench range by Friso Kramer, the 7000 range by Hans Peter Piehl or the 840 range by ProduktEntwicklung Roericht. Insit is an example of a traditional type of upholstered bench translated into a multipurpose seating range to reflect the professional requirements of today’s working environments.
- Its 45 cm seating height enables working, communicating, eating and drinking at normal table heights and in combination with chairs. Flexible solutions for all generations are the result.
- The bench’s upholstery is firm and ergonomic to encourage agile and dynamic styles of working.
- There’s a wide range of multi-seater options that are linear, curved or at a 90-degree angle and can be linked with one another. This enables a virtually infinite variety of different configurations and sectional seating so that rooms and communal spaces can be divided up into specific zones.