MANUFACTURING CENTRE Every piece of furniture in the Röthlisberger Kollektion seeks to be the perfect translation of a new concept. Frequently, new manufacturing methods have to be found and implemented to achieve this. Naturally, such a level of innovative spirit also requires space. In Gümligen, a well-designed development and production area meets this need. Cutting-edge technology complements first-class craftsmanship. Efficient production processes have been further optimised with the opening of a centre extension in 2012. Like the 2002 new building, the cuboid timber construction with 1800 m2 of floor space was also designed by architectural firm ARB, Bern, and Trix and Robert Haussmann. Our furniture is made and finished by hand here in accordance with best practice. However, much happens before an item of furniture leaves the manufacturing centre: intensive consultation with the designer, a great deal of trust and a continual exploration of what can be done, and how. It’s a process that also needs passion and expertise. The designer and all who work at Röthlisberger need to be driven by one motive: creating furniture that inspires from a visual, haptic and functional standpoint. MATERIAL KNOWLEDGE Just as a leading chef will only work with the finest ingredients, a piece of furniture in the Röthlisberger Kollektion will only be crafted from the very best materials. Over 80 years of carpentry tradition guarantee careful selection and professional workmanship. Our timber store is stocked primarily with indigenous woods from rigorously selected suppliers: ash, oak, walnut, pear and many more. Working with this organic raw material requires a lot of experience. Where necessary, we will treat timber in our own drying kiln until it exhibits the best possible stability. This enables us to guarantee the quality of our furniture for many years. The appeal and uniqueness of a piece of furniture is often also a question of choosing the right veneer. That’s why our veneer warehouse is stocked with only the finest woods. We hold 40 types in stock at any one time. And their diversity of patterns and figurings opens a wide spectrum of possibilities. Modern CNC machines are used for precision processing: namely sawing, countersinking and sanding. At the Röthlisberger Kollektion we take the proverbial ‘finishing touch’ in a very literal sense: it’s the finest carpentry craftsmanship, applied with a passion for perfection. VISION AND TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY. The translation of a complex concept into a three-dimensional object is a core ability of Röthlisberger Kollektion. Often, the idea put forward by the designer will be based on a selection of materials, an interplay of colours or a model. Intensive consultation – a to-and-fro between vision and technical feasibility – then begins. Accepting responsibility for what is possible under our roof is Peter Röthlisberger. An idea will be refined and revised in a process of close collaboration: the creation of sketches, deliberations about shapes and dimensions, discussions about and trials of materials, colours, structures and surface feels. Sometimes an entirely new approach emerges. And often, it is a struggle to reach detailed solutions. But it is always one thing: a process that demands much trust, but also imagination, experience and intuition. It is how vision gives rise to a conceptual design. And with it, the basis for the next production steps. Manufacturing processes are trialled, working drawings, models and prototypes produced. Often, they are rejected and improved. Until the concept is able to be realised optimally and, with it, become part of the Röthlisberger Kollektion.
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The architectural firm Aebi & Vincent SIA AG exists since 1996. the founders Bernhard Aebi and Pascal Vincent met in 1990, when they both worked in a Bernese architecture office. Since then, Aebi & Vincent has about forty employees divided between two offices in Berne and Geneva. The numerous competitions and projects won and successfully implemented in recent years are the best guarantee of their success. The mountain house located prominently at the top of Niesen received the "International Award of construction in the Alps", while the renovation of the very representative Parliament building has been recognized internationally and also in the press. From their origins, their training and their respective characters, Bernhard Aebi and Pascal Vincent are two very different personalities. Both think independently, but remain co-authors of all their accomplishments. This positively affects their work and provides material for critical discussions to enrich and develop their projects. This attitude and this requirement also create a framework conducive to the autonomy and empowerment of employees. For architects Aebi & Vincent, each project is a unique object approached with fresh eyes, and developed consciously and precisely based on the potential and history of the place. The situation is analyzed as thoroughly as the objective of the mandate, the needs of project manager and users. Aebi & Vincent projects are all of a long and intense development process. The design as well as construction, but also each decision, each intervention should ideally prevail with the same obviousness. In fact, everything down to the smallest details, is the result of reflection and visual design while the whole is also in a global and urbanistic vision. Particular attention is paid to the juxtaposition of spaces, whether interior, exterior or their interaction. The multiplicity and diversity of tasks that confront the architect Aebi & Vincent are impressive. The field of activities includes the construction of new housings in the Grand Saconnex and Pinchat in Carouge in the canton of Geneva, as well as a new detached house in Amiet-Strasse Herzogenbuchsee, Hochfeld school sanitation in Bern, and the renovation and expansion of the boarding school in Bern Rossfeld - a shelter and training for disabled children. They agree with the same motivation for the design of urban New free high school founded in Bolzano, and planning new centers of villages of Bönigen in Steffisburg. The headquarters of Valiant Bank, located in the center of the capital of the federal state, is also part of the list of their accomplishments, as well as developing a concept for the new urban district of 5,000 residents in Neugraben-Fischbek in the city of Hamburg. A typology for which architects Aebi & Vincent get excited: response to historical and architectural data linking states of the old and new, whether inside buildings, centers of villages or urban complexes. They respect the historical substance to the smallest details, they conduct research on materials and colors concepts, they restore, however, bring new clear and incisive accents, surprising, while remaining simple and responsive, without any concession to current fashion. This attitude, which is verified in an exemplary manner in the parliament building in Bern, is also sensitive, but naturally to quite a different level, in the renovation of the residence for elderly in Elfenau in Bern. Designed in 1928 by Otto Rudolf Salvisberg and Otto Brechbühl as a center for infants, it is viewed in Switzerland as an exemplary figure of the new architecture. Biography Bernhard Aebi, architect HTL SIA FSAI 1963 born in Langnau, Bern BE 1988 Degree in architecture from the Technischen Hochschule Burgdorf 1988-1996 collaborator in Atelier 5 in Bern Since 1996 office Aebi & Vincent Architekten SIA AG in Bern and Geneva with Pascal Vincent Pascal Vincent, architect EPF ETS SIA FSAI 1964 born in Geneva, Geneva GE 1989 Degree in architecture from the Eidgenössisch Technischen Hochschule in Lausanne 1990-1996 collaborator in Atelier 5 in Bern Since 1996 office Aebi & Vincent Architekten SIA AG in Bern and Geneva with Bernhard Aebi
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Where does a product designer get his ideas from? From new materials that encourage challenging new applications. From new production techniques that make the previously unthinkable possible. And by observing everyday life manifesting unsatisfied needs. It is in this arena that Zurich designer Beat Karrer together with his team develops new products which resound favourably with his renowned clientele such as Anthologie Quartett, Ballfinger and Designerslabel (Germany), Boffi and Corian/DuPont (Italy), Offecct (Sweden), Burri, Röthlisberger, Kidsmodern and Tossa (Switzerland) or TossB (Belgium). As well as among the juries of international competitions in Belgium, Germany, Spain and Switzerland that awarded Beat Karrer with several prizes for his designs which often are unusual in their approach yet very functional and practical in their daily application. Nowadays Beat Karrer is also an active visiting teacher, lectures all over Europe, participates in juries and leads workshops for example for the Vitra Design Museum. Beat Karrer's ideas have appeared in many publications and various books.
About Röthlisberger Kollektion
MANUFACTURING CENTRE
Every piece of furniture in the Röthlisberger Kollektion seeks to be the perfect translation of a new concept. Frequently, new manufacturing methods have to be found and implemented to achieve this. Naturally, such a level of innovative spirit also requires space. In Gümligen, a well-designed development and production area meets this need. Cutting-edge technology complements first-class craftsmanship. Efficient production processes have been further optimised with the opening of a centre extension in 2012. Like the 2002 new building, the cuboid timber construction with 1800 m2 of floor space was also designed by architectural firm ARB, Bern, and Trix and Robert Haussmann.
Our furniture is made and finished by hand here in accordance with best practice. However, much happens before an item of furniture leaves the manufacturing centre: intensive consultation with the designer, a great deal of trust and a continual exploration of what can be done, and how. It’s a process that also needs passion and expertise. The designer and all who work at Röthlisberger need to be driven by one motive: creating furniture that inspires from a visual, haptic and functional standpoint.
MATERIAL KNOWLEDGE
Just as a leading chef will only work with the finest ingredients, a piece of furniture in the Röthlisberger Kollektion will only be crafted from the very best materials. Over 80 years of carpentry tradition guarantee careful selection and professional workmanship. Our timber store is stocked primarily with indigenous woods from rigorously selected suppliers: ash, oak, walnut, pear and many more. Working with this organic raw material requires a lot of experience. Where necessary, we will treat timber in our own drying kiln until it exhibits the best possible stability. This enables us to guarantee the quality of our furniture for many years.
The appeal and uniqueness of a piece of furniture is often also a question of choosing the right veneer. That’s why our veneer warehouse is stocked with only the finest woods. We hold 40 types in stock at any one time. And their diversity of patterns and figurings opens a wide spectrum of possibilities. Modern CNC machines are used for precision processing: namely sawing, countersinking and sanding. At the Röthlisberger Kollektion we take the proverbial ‘finishing touch’ in a very literal sense: it’s the finest carpentry craftsmanship, applied with a passion for perfection.
VISION AND TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY.
The translation of a complex concept into a three-dimensional object is a core ability of Röthlisberger Kollektion. Often, the idea put forward by the designer will be based on a selection of materials, an interplay of colours or a model. Intensive consultation – a to-and-fro between vision and technical feasibility – then begins. Accepting responsibility for what is possible under our roof is Peter Röthlisberger. An idea will be refined and revised in a process of close collaboration: the creation of sketches, deliberations about shapes and dimensions, discussions about and trials of materials, colours, structures and surface feels. Sometimes an entirely new approach emerges.
And often, it is a struggle to reach detailed solutions. But it is always one thing: a process that demands much trust, but also imagination, experience and intuition.
It is how vision gives rise to a conceptual design. And with it, the basis for the next production steps. Manufacturing processes are trialled, working drawings, models and prototypes produced. Often, they are rejected and improved. Until the concept is able to be realised optimally and, with it, become part of the Röthlisberger Kollektion.
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