Clickbait: D2 Office by WAGNER

Moritz Wagner, the founder of the Swabian chair manufacturer, was an early advocate of the principle that utility must always come before design. The D2 Office applies this corporate philosophy in the form of a constantly changing space and a parametric system.

Berlin architects Gonzalez Haase AAS developed the blueprint for the future D2 Office System for Munich-based Bureau Borsche. The result was individually manufactured shelves, tables and partitions with a central connecting element, with which every room requirement can be staged professionally, and, at the same time, in keeping with the highest standards of creative design.

The new D2 shelving system also obeys the dictate of flexibility and can be short or long, narrow or wide. The basic principle is that, thanks to the universal plastic connecting element, lightweight aluminum plates with a thickness of 15mm can be joined without the aid of tools.

The connecting element, which is clicked into the plates, not only connects the shelves but also the rear wall and the L-shaped profiles in which the shelves are hung, while U-shaped profiles conceal the connecting elements themselves. The whole is a cleverly designed system characterised by impressive simplicity. Like the table, the honeycomb panels of the aluminum shelves exhibit an open edge, which takes up the idea of the rough-cut panel.

Collaboration with both in-house partners as well as external craftspeople capable of meeting the specific needs and wishes of customers clearly show that none of this has been conceived for the masses. That leads not only to flexibility and individuality, but above all to co-determination – the focal point of the creative urban office in our time.

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