Orgatec 2012: WORKSPACE by Müller Möbelfabrikation

At Orgatec 2012 Augsburg based Müller Möbelfabrikation introduced their new WORKSPACE product range(s).

Developed in cooperation with Andreas Struppler and Sebastian Frank from Munich based Struppler Industriedesign, WORKSPACE is technically two ranges – WORK and SPACE, or “Labor et Spatium” for any scholars of historic furniture design who may be reading – that combine to create a modular office furniture system.

WORK is represented by two height adjustable desks, one electronic the other manual, which can be combined with end/middle consoles and acoustic panels/sight screens to create individual work-spaces. An important feature of the desks is that the cables flow through the structure; inbuilt plugs, DSL sockets and USB ports allow for easy connection of all normal office hardware.

If we’re honest, with our wanton disregard for the universal rules of spatial order we’d probably be capable of disarticulating WORKs carefully considered, crisp geometry. But for all normal users, WORK should allow for an uncluttered work environment.

SPACE is devoted to storage and includes various sideboards and roll container options.

Particular highlights of the WORKSPACE system for us were/are the electronic height adjustable table, an object that is just as pleasing technically as visually, and the end/middle consoles, units which not only function as dividers but also as storage and memo boards in one practical body.

It will come as no surprise to learn that steel is the principle construction material, or that the individual WORKSPACE elements can be ordered in any combination of RAL colours.

Those after all are two of the features of the Müller Möbelfabrikation philosophy that makes them so engaging and their products so interesting.

That, and as we know since we visited the Müller Möbelfabrikation factory, production based on good old, time-honoured handwork.

In our Augsburg Text we noted that “The initial “Classic Line Collection” of self-designed fairly beefy office furniture has been supplemented and complimented over the years by new, and lighter, collections… ” This trend is very much continued with WORKSPACE and that in a very polished, innovative and charming fashion.

Here a few impressions from the Müller Möbelfabrikation at Orgatec 2012.