Who makes Europe's office chairs
Thirteen makers, grouped by where their European chairs come from. Plant locations are taken from each company's own documents: EPDs, certificates and product sheets.
Updated By The Best Office Chairs Europe editorial team
Germany and Switzerland
- Interstuhl 10-yr warranty · 3 chairs
A family-owned Swabian maker whose three current task-chair families all carry the Blauer Engel, the GS mark and Quality Office, with a 10-year warranty that explicitly includes gas springs and mechanisms.
- Wilkhahn 5-yr warranty · 2 chairs
A Lower Saxony maker known for three-dimensional "Trimension" movement in ON and IN, with a published take-back guarantee and its own webshop for Germany and Austria.
- Sedus 5-yr warranty · 2 chairs
A foundation-owned maker from the Black Forest edge, with "Made in Germany" production at two German sites and a 10-year repairability promise.
- Vitra 2-yr warranty · 2 chairs
Swiss-owned, German-assembled: Vitra’s office seating is finished in Weil am Rhein, and ID Mesh is one of the few task chairs here with a third-party verified EPD.
- Löffler 30-yr warranty · 2 chairs
A Franconian maker that builds everything in one Hersbruck facility and publishes the longest mechanism warranty in this register: 30 years.
- Dauphin 5-yr warranty · 1 chairs
A Bavarian family firm whose Indeed task chair declares EN 1335:2020 Type A, a 150 kg user rating and the Blauer Engel.
Scandinavia
- Flokk (HÅG, RH) 10-yr warranty · 4 chairs
The Norwegian group behind HÅG and RH. Its chairs are made in Røros and Nässjö, ship with EPDs, and come with a 10-year spare-parts guarantee.
- Kinnarps warranty not published · 2 chairs
A family-owned Swedish contract maker with six Swedish plants, an EU Ecolabel licence and an in-house refurbishment service.
- Varier 10-yr warranty · 3 chairs
The Norwegian home of the Balans kneeling chairs (Variable, Thatsit) and the Move stool, designed in Norway and, per its product pages, made in Poland.
US brands with European production
- Steelcase 12-yr warranty · 6 chairs
An American brand whose European task chairs are built in Sarrebourg, Lorraine. Leap, Gesture and Series 2 are, for a European buyer, French-made chairs.
- Haworth 10-yr warranty · 2 chairs
An American brand whose European Fern and Zody are made in Portugal and Poland, with registered EMEA EPDs and a take-back service in the EU.
- Herman Miller 12-yr warranty · 6 chairs
American design, British build: Herman Miller’s European Aeron, Embody, Sayl and Setu are made in Melksham, Wiltshire, which is outside the EU since 2021.
- Humanscale 15-yr warranty · 1 chairs
A New York company with a facility in Dublin; where its chairs for Europe are made is not published.
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