The three letters are synonymous with intelligent upholstered furniture, the company from Westphalia being one of the few German manufacturers confident enough to stand up to the great Italian brands. This can be attributed among other things to COR’s having managed to maintain good relationships with “its” designers over the decades and through diverse crises. Leo Lübke jun., who took over the business in 1994 from Helmut Lübke, has also kept up this important custom ever since.

 
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COR already started working with freelance designers in the late 1950s, one of the first in the industry to do so. Initial hits were the sofa systems Quinta (1959 by Michael Bayer) and Conseta (1964 by Friedrich Wilhelm Möller), two archetypes that ushered rational and functional aspects into the culture of seating furniture and, with them, the spirit of the Ulm Academy of Design.