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Home is where the heart is. The place where you find peace, relax with your family and hang out with friends when time allows – an important setting for everything we care about, be it family, treasured objects, design or art. To Wilde + Spieth the home environment has always served as an important basis and inspiration for our design, because as we see it, the basic human values and needs for comfort, functionality and not least beauty are the same whether you are at home, in your office, in a meeting room or work in any environment where you sit down for many hours. For decades, we have...

SE 42, 3-legged chair Green blue/green blue, p. 56

SE 68, Multi purpose chair Bottle green/black, p. 55 SE 68, Multi purpose chair Black/black, bottle green/black, p. 55 Typus table Square version, 200 x 100 cm, black/black, p. 61

SE 319, Folding table and bench Beech/chrome, p. 60 SE 18, Folding chair Black/black, p. 57

Left and right: SE 42, 3-legged chair Beech/beech, p. 56 SE 18, Folding chair Black/black, beech/beech, p. 57 Typus table Oval version, 200 x 100 cm, white/white, p. 61

Left: SE 68, Multi purpose chair Beech/black, p. 55 SE 18, Folding chair Beech/beech, p. 57

SE 68, Multi purpose chair Bottle green/black, p. 55 SE 330, Coffee table Bottle green/black, p. 61

SE 330, Couch table Black/black, p. 61 SE 42, 3-legged chair Bottle green/bottle green, p. 56

SE 18, Folding chair Black/black, p. 57 S 38/S1, Stackable stool Black/black, p. 56

Architect and designer Egon Eiermann The Architect When the German architect and designer Egon Eiermann (1904-1970) first made his name internationally at the Brussels World Exhibition with eight glass and steel pavilions created in collaboration with the Bauhaus architect Sep Ruf, large parts of Europe were still in ruins after the horrors of World War II. At the time, he was already one of the most trend-setting German architects; before and during as well as after the war, he contributed to the construction of buildings of great importance for his country and his age. Eiermann graduated...

many architects of the day, he did not intend his buildings to remain standing forever Above all, they should give way to others. Moreover, he did not want his buildings to remain as eternal monuments to a certain era of architecture. According to him, one should be able to tear them down and reuse the materials. He saw architecture as an expression of the time in which we live. Something that should be exploited fully, as long as it’s there. But also something that, like all life, will perish sooner or later. Even so, his pure modernist architecture had an enormous impact on post-war...

6. Festival hall in Bern, Switzerland, with 4000 folding chairs SE 18, 1954

works included the E10 Basket Chair (1954), designed for the exhibition Wie Wohnen in Karlsruhe, and not least the SE 18 Folding Chair, probably Eiermann’s most well-known chair ever, designed for the German producer Wilde + Spieth. The chair won The Good Design Award at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1953, and the silver medal at the Triennale in Milan in 1954. In the following years, Egon Eiermann designed more iconic chairs and tables in close collaboration with Wilde + Spieth, using plywood and steel as materials. Posterity has embraced these as modern classics, cherished by...

10. Egon Eiermann, Baden-Baden, Germany, in front of his house, 1968 SE 41, Swivel stool Black/chrome, p. 57

SE 18, Folding chair Black/black, p. 57 SE 68, Multi purpose chair Black/chrome, p. 55

SE 68, Multi purpose chair Black/chrome, p. 55

S 197 R, Swivel chair Beech/chrome, p. 57 SE 68 SU, Multi purpose chair stackable w. armrest, beech/black, p. 55

SBG 41, Swivel chair Beech/chrome, p. 57 SE 18, Folding chair Black/black, p. 57

SE 68, Multi purpose chair Beech/chrome, p. 57 SE 68, Multi purpose chair Bottle green/black, bottle green/black, p. 57

SE 330, Couch table Beech/chrome, p. 61 S 38/S1, Stackable stool Green blue/chrome, beech/chrome, black/chrome, p. 56

S 38/S1, Stackable stool Black/black, p. 56

SB 38, Bar stool Green blue/green blue, p. 56 S 193 R, Swivel stool Black/chrome p. 59

SE 43, Swivel stool Black/chrome, p. 60 SBG 197 R, Swivel chair Black/chrome, p. 57

SNG 197, Swivel chair w. armrest, black/chrome, p. 59 SE 41, Swivel stool Black/chrome, p. 59

SE 41, Swivel stool Black/chrome, p. 60 Right: SE 42, 3-legged chair Beech/beech, p. 56 Typus table Square version, 160 x 80 cm, beach/black, p. 61

Left and right: SBG 43, Swivel stool Black/chrome, p. 58

SE 68 Multi purpose chair by Egon Eiermann SE 68 SU Stackable version by Egon Eiermann Seat and back: Beech, teak, oak, walnut, stained black, stained in special colours, lacquered white, black or in special colours, Les Couleurs® Le Corbusier Seat and back: Beech, teak, oak, walnut, stained black, stained in special colours, lacquered white, black or in special colours, Les Couleurs® Le Corbusier Seat and back: Beech, teak, oak, walnut, stained black, stained in special colours, lacquered in white, black or in special colours, Les Couleurs® Le Corbusier Frame: Chrome, Matt chrome, black...

S 38/S1 Stackable stool by Egon Eiermann SE 42 3-legged chair by Egon Eiermann SE 18 Folding chair by Egon Eiermann SBG 197 R Swivel chair by Egon Eiermann Seat: Beech, stained black, stained in special colours, lacquered in white, black or in special colours Seat: Beech, stained black, stained in special colours, lacquered in white, black or in special colours Seat and back: Beech, stained black, stained in special colours Frame: Chrome, matt chrome, black powder coated, black matt powder coated, colour powder coated Seat and back: Beech, teak, oak, stained black, stained in special...

SE 40 Swivel chair by Egon Eiermann Seat: Beech, stained black, stained in special colours, lacquered in white, black or in special colours Seat and back: Beech, teak, oak, stained black, stained in special colours, lacquered in white, black or in special colours, Les Couleurs® Le Corbusier Seat and back: Beech, teak, oak, stained black, stained in special colours, lacquered in white, black or in special colours, Les Couleurs® Le Corbusier Seat: Beech, stained black, stained in special colours, lacquered in white, black or in special colours Seat and back: Beech, teak, oak, stained black,...