Histoires de S+ Systemmöbel

S+ makes furniture that adapts: to measurements, to colours, to special requests. Besides a well-known collection, the company has also developed a stunning new system that has been re-thought from scratch.

Everything changes, so they say. But should it? What about decades-old, often iconic designs? Should they be preserved, as it were, their contemporary production remaining ‘true’ in every respect to the ‘original’? Or ought manufacturers be free to modify them – materially, technically, even formally – in the name of contemporary market appeal. And what about the thorny issue of authorship? Architonic investigates.