Vitra - Work @ Orgatec Cologne 2018
...Further office chairs in the same spirit from Mario Bellini and Antonio Citterio followed before in 1991 with Citizen Office Vitra embarked on, arguably, their most important office project: reflections on the future of the work environment, a project which the, then, Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum noted was "ein Projekt mit ungewissem Ausgang"1 - "a project with an uncertain outcome... Yes the three proposals presented in Cologne were object heavy proposals, Vitra object heavy proposals, new Vitra object heavy proposals, including Konstantin Grcic's new Rookie office chair, Antonio Citterio's new AC 5 office chair family, and Barber & Osgerby's new Soft Work modular seating system, but it was trade fair, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ; however, in essence the three scenarios were based on the responsible creatives considerations on how the office environment relates to the wider world and the consequences therein...
