Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller (entrepreneur, 1931)

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Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller (born April 14, 1931 in Lemgo ; † June 23, 1996 ) was a German furniture designer , interior designer and entrepreneur . In 1963 he developed the Conseta seating system , the basic type of which is still produced in many variations today and which is considered a design classic.

Life

Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller grew up as the son of a carpenter in Lemgo, Westphalia. At the age of 14 he began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in order to later take over his father's business. After his master's examination , he studied interior design . He got to know the furniture industry in the early 1960s as a freelance sales representative for COR and Interlübke .

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In 1963 Möller opened his own architecture office for furniture design. In the same year he designed one of the first module programs in the history of German furniture design for the seating furniture manufacturer COR , which was launched in 1964 under the name Conseta ( Latin con sedere = to sit together) and is still in production today. At a time when international furniture design was processing new plastics, Möller developed an upholstered furniture system on a wooden frame in which stool, armchair, sofa and corner elements can be put together and dismantled again using strap-wedge connections. The covers are not stapled to the frame, but have a knock-in welt that is pulled into a groove on the frame and can be pulled off completely. Möller continued to develop Conseta . His son Cord recalled that he never left the house without a sheet of paper and a fine felt-tip pen to sketch out his ideas. A sofa bed was added in 1977, a high back in 1996, and a year later a so-called cozy corner.

In 1987 he founded his company Möller Design in Lemgo . For Möller, the guidelines of his work included the longevity of the products, aesthetic timelessness and the focus on people.

After the company's founder died, his son, Cord Möller, took over the management and has been running Möller Design as a family business ever since.

literature

  • Gunda Siebke, Susanne Wittorf: The Conseta upholstery system by Friedrich Wilhelm Möller (= design classic ). Verlag Form, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-89802-015-0 (additional edition: Birkhäuser, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6871-3 ).
English edition: The upholstered furniture system Conseta by Friedrich Wilhelm Möller (= Design-Classics ). Verlag Form, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-89802-016-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ COR Designer: Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller
  2. ^ Design-Classics , special edition of the magazine form , July / August 2007, Birkhäuser Verlag Basel, p. 27
  3. ^ Gunda Siebke, Susanne Wittorf: Design classics. The Conseta upholstery system by Friedrich Wilhelm Möller , Birkhäuser Verlag 2002, ISBN 978-3-7643-6871-5 , p. 21
  4. ^ Designer. Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller, in the designer lexicon of Architektur & Wohnen
  5. ^ Andrej Kupetz, Stephan Ott: Overcoming Invisibility - German furniture design . Goethe Institute 2009
  6. ↑ Designer Möller: "The human being is the measure of all furniture" , Hamburger Abendblatt October 30, 2008
  7. ↑ Möller Design, portrait in: Formguide ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.formguide.de
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Friedrich-Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German furniture designer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemgo
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1996