Casala contract furniture

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Casala Objektmöbel , formerly Casala-Werke Carl Sasse , is a manufacturer of furniture founded in 1917 , in particular office furniture such as tables and chairs for public and social areas designed by designers .

history

Casala Wooden Casala student chair with the plaque: "Exemplary school stalls", brand 2/1988 , size 5
Casala Chair sculpture on the plaza in the industrial park of Lauenau

The company in Lauenau, associated with the name of the manufacturer and entrepreneur Carl Sasse (1892–1956), was founded in the middle of the First World War in 1917 and initially produced wooden shoe soles. Stood by Casala is an abbreviation of Ca rl Sa sse La uenau .

After the war, the company initially expanded its range to include wooden furniture, and later to include upholstered and metal furniture.

In the 1950s, the company made a name for itself primarily with its school furniture, but also with wooden toys and toys . The Casalino , a one-piece plastic chair, was created in 1975 based on designs by Alexander Begge (* 1941).

At the end of the 1960s, the Casala works employed around 1,000 people and exported mainly to the Benelux countries, Switzerland and Austria, Sweden and the USA. The subsidiary companies at the time were the Süddeutsches Casala-Werk GmbH in Neu-Ulm and the Lima upholstery factory Grönemeyer & Co. in Rodenberg am Deister .

After changing hands several times in the 1980s and 1990s, the Lauenau parent plant had to file for bankruptcy in 2001 . As a result, the factory was owned by Casala Meubelen in Culemborg in the Netherlands .

Eventually, the rights to the Casala brand became the property of Paul and Frank van der Winkel. The two entrepreneurs, who at the beginning of the 21st century had their products in more than 25 countries, concentrated on the quick handling and flexible use of their furniture, sometimes through technical innovations.

At the original production site in Lauenau, today's Casala Objektmöbel GmbH maintains "still today an office and showroom" at Magirusstrasse 16 .

Fonts

  • Casala company newspaper. From the business community for the business community , Lauenau: Carl Sasse [Stuhlfabriken], periodicals from 1938
  • Operating rules. Casala, Carl Sasse, Suhl and upholstered furniture factories, Lauenau , Lauenau: Carl Sasse, chair and upholstered furniture factories, 1942

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b comparisons the imprint ( Memento of 22 December 2017 Internet Archive ) of the GmbH on the side casala.com [no date], as last accessed on December 21, 2017
  2. ^ A b c Rudolf Klein (Ed.): Casala-Werke Carl Sasse , in ders .: Niedersachsenlexikon. Everything you need to know about the state of Lower Saxony, Frankfurt am Main: Umschau-Verlag, 1969, p. 57
  3. ↑ above: About Casala / Design linked to functionality ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on the casala.com page [ undated ], accessed on December 21, 2017
  4. ↑ a b c Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  5. ↑ a b c d e o. V .: History / From the Lower Saxony Province to the International Markets ( Memento from December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on the page casala.com [ undated ], accessed on December 21, 2017
  6. ↑ MD. Furniture interior design. Konradin-Verlag Robert Kohlhammer, 1998, p. 34.
    Mel Byars (Ed.): The Design Encyclopedia. L. King Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-87070-012-X , p. 65.

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 27.5 ″  N , 9 ° 21 ′ 17 ″  E