The company’s very first product, the S 90 chair (1987) by Arno Votteler, was already a resounding success. It was the “founding chair” that not only established the brand, but also inaugurated a long working relationship with Votteler. The S 90 is still in the program today, along with Arno, another brainchild of the Swabian designer. Arno has a special shell construction at the transition between seat and backrest. In this area there are fewer veneer layers than in the other parts of the seat shell. This results in a high degree of elasticity, which supports the sitter’s back. Bisterfeld + Weiss was established in the mid-1980s with the aim of bringing more domestic comfort to the world of objects. For demographic reasons that are amply familiar by now, the firm devoted its energies early on to the increasingly important, but even today still not really popular, theme of the “old-age lifestyle”. The objective of uniting solid wood construction with modern furniture design succeeded in the programs Serie 80 and Serie 90 by Votteler and was consistently drivenforward up to the models S 11 and S 12 (2003 by Urs Greutmann and Carmen Greutmann- Bolzern). Another common thread running through the product history of Bisterfeld + Weiss is exemplified by the intelligent multifunctional tables, such as model M (1991) by Reiner Moll. With this and further designs, including the folding wonder-table Adebar, Moll introduced a more conceptual formal vocabulary. In 2003 the table system P 1 was added, by Swiss designer Greutmann, for which the company registered its first patent. With his clean-lined style and a whole series of new products, he is now shaping the face of the brand. One of Bolzern ’s latest designs is the S 20 chair (2005), a lean, simple and straightforward object for sitting made of wood and metal that is conspicuous by virtue of its very inconspicuousness, as well as due to high-quality design details that only become evident upon closer inspection.