He created flowering seating landscapes and thus shaped the FRG’s living style. An obituary for the entrepreneur and designer Rolf Benz, who also designed the legendary couch for “Wetten, dass ..?”.
The young Federal Republic and the noticeable changes in the home of people would need a correspondence in the furniture – with this assessment, the trained Polster Rolf Benz started his company in 1964, and he himself came from a family of textile producers. And his first collection this year was exemplary what the young man from Baden Nagold imagined under modern living and new seating culture-“AddiForm”, the debut sofa program, had few design frills and combined a lot of function: Individual seating elements could be combined flexibly, the sofa could be folded down to the sleeping place, various installation variants were possible.