We definitely need a bigger display case for ON’s awards. Having already garnered a huge number of prizes, it has now won another one. The “Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design” and the “European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies” have given it one of the world’s most prestigious design prizes: the GOOD DESIGN Award. Founded in 1950 in Chicago by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames and Edgar Kaufmann Jr., GOOD DESIGN is the world’s oldest award programme for product and graphic design.

Each year, the GOOD DESIGN Award is presented to top products and design concepts from the most diverse of areas: from energy systems, ships, cards, kitchens and electrical equipment, to furniture, computers and telephones, to clothing, headphones and pencil sharpeners – “anything and everything from a city to a spoon”.

The 60th anniversary of the award programme saw a record number of entries from leading companies and designers from 45 countries. This year, the international judges came to New York from Reykjavik, Mexico City, Helsinki, Barcelona, Los Angeles and Milan to issue 500 awards in 37 countries, of which 57 were in the “Furniture 2010” category. All the winning designs are listed at www.chi-athenaeum.org/gdesign and will be exhibited in the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.

We hope you’re not bored with hearing about it, but ON’s long string of awards shows no signs of stopping. After the most recent Australian International Design Award 2010, the Mix Interior Award 2010, the Best of Competition Award at Neocon 2010 and the German Design Award in silver, this year highly successfully completes its vast bundle of prizes with the FX International Interior Design Award. At the ceremony on 30 November in London, ON was voted the Product of the Year 2010.

Organised by FX magazine, this glamorous event with 1,200 guests is regularly the annual highlight of Great Britain’s design industry. The best interior design products and projects in the world are sought after. ON had already been nominated for the short list of the best ten products in the “Workplace seating award” and “Product of the Year Award”.

In the final round, Wilkhahn managed to beat all nine competitors. The “Product of the Year Award” went to ON. The judges were impressed with the “radically new approach to comfortable, dynamic seating”: “…ON is a breakthrough in ergonomic office seating. Unlike anything the judges had seen before…”.

For a detailed overview of this year’s nominations and winners of the Award, visit http://www.fxdesignawards.co.uk.

“Responsible Furniture” was Wilkhahn’s theme at Orgatec 2010. In addition to the new models in the ON office chair range (design: wiege), guests were able to try out the new flexible table models created by Andreas Störiko and designer Stefan Diez’s multi-purpose chair – which was exceptional for its manufacturing method alone. Two prototypes of the equally attractive conference chair, designed by Jehs + Laub, showed what we have to look forward to in the second half of 2011.

German Design Award 2011

The multi-award-winning office chair range ON has now bowled over the judges for the German Design Award. Often called the ultimate prize due to its particularly high demands, it is the top official German design award. The judges’ official statement was as follows: “Sitting as a natural form of movement that allows the body the natural movement options of which it is capable. In the excellently designed office chair ON, based on this conceptual approach, Wilkhahn has come up with yet another health-promoting milestone and thanks to the freedom of movement when sitting opens up new dimensions of experience at the workplace”. They also praised the chair’s functionality: “Everything revolves (literally) around Trimension®, a synchronized, kinematic system offering three-dimensional support whose pivots are exactly coordinated with the positions and scope of movement of hip and knee. The quick adjustment is activated using just two buttons”.

In this year’s competition, 962 nominations were submitted in the product design category. Only five products received the German Design Award in gold and 20 in silver. ON won silver and was the only product from the office furnishings segment to win one of the coveted awards.

The pleasure is entirely on the side of the ON development team.

Once a year, the German trade magazine Das Büro conducts the “Office Professionals Test”. On this occasion, the editors issue an invitation to their editorial office in Berlin-Mitte, in order to carry out full-fledged testing of high-quality office chairs on site. The test results left no doubt: the winner was the ON from Wilkhahn.

Despite the heat wave with temperatures soaring to nearly 40 degrees, about 90 “experienced office workers” took the opportunity in June of this year to evaluate ten different swivel chairs. In its latest issue, Das Büro presents the results: the undisputed winner according to points was the ON. It impressed through its “modern, fresh design” and exceptional ergonomical features thanks to its three-dimensional mobility. “Most of the testers had great fun trying it out”, was another conclusion. This goes to show once again: the ON not only looks attractive, it also stands the test in the daily routine.

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On the 22nd & 23rd of September, the Wilkhahn London team exhibited the award winning ON chair at office*, a brand new event that focuses on bringing Office Professionals, PAs, Office Managers and Executive Assistants together with potential new business partners and solutions providers. Held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, over 6000 of the Uk’s key decision makers and buyers responsible for purchasing all products & services required for any office visited the show over the two days. And of course ON proved to be a very popular.

More information about office* at: http://www.officeshow.co.uk/

ON office* 2010

ON office* 2010

The countdown’s begun: ORGATEC, the international premier fair for office and business facilities, starts on 26 October in Cologne. So it’s high time to make your travel arrangements. Make sure your visit to Wilkhahn in hall 6.1, stand B88/C89 is on your agenda. Designed by wiege, the stand will showcase a number of innovations, including new developments for the successful ON and Aline ranges. We will also present the first chair worldwide that has been made with space-frame technology, familiar in the automotive segment. We will be telling you more in October. We look forward to seeing you in Cologne.

Orgatec 2010

A greatest-hits album is a must for any legend. After announcing the winners of our Rock On Roll contest last month, we have now compiled the best submissions in a best-of video: a medley of the Greatest Clips. You can now view “Best of Rock ON Roll” on YouTube and our very first ON clip.