Functional Furniture Design for School and Office Settings

In 1898, VS was founded as Vereinigte Schulbankfabriken

GmbH. As a full-service supplier, VS now creates intelli

-gent furniture and integrative solutions for the education

sector as well as for living and working spaces in offices.

This book and its many images take you on a journey

through the company's 125 years of history. It offers

an overview of the industrialization of furniture manufac

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turing in Germany, spanning the German Empire, World

War I, the German Reich, the Great Depression, the Nazis

in Germany, World War II, and the time after the war from

the reunification of Germany to the present day. At the

same time, this company history doubles as a cultural

history of the field of education as well as its furniture