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Facts at a Glance – Furniture Knowledge Summarised | VS

Facts at a glance furniture knowledge briefly summarized for you.

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'Facts at a Glance' offers you quick and reliable information about furniture. Here, you will find concise and easy-to-understand facts about materials, designs, trends, and care instructions. Ideal for those who want to efficiently and comprehensively learn about the world of furniture. Expand your furniture knowledge in an instant!
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A multifaceted learning environment by VS for an all-day school: with seating elements from the Lounge and Shift+ Landscape series, the Puzzle free-form table and PantoSwing-LuPo pupil chairs

The Challenge of All-Day Schooling

All-Day School – It should be much more than mere childcare until 3 or 4 o’clock. Although this idea has become established, the rooms and furniture are often lacking. Read here to find out how flexible furniture and multifunctional room concepts can positively change schools.

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Young woman in a yellow dress sits on the ergonomic stool Hokki by VS

Ergonomics at Work

Rooms – no matter where – bombard us with lots of different sensations. They can stimulate us positively, but also inhibit us or even make us ill.

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A firefighter next to a fire engine of the VS works fire brigade

What are the Fire Protection Requirements  for furniture?

Public buildings in particular, such as schools, offices or events spaces, must be safe. Which is why fire protection is especially important here. But what standards apply to furniture?

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Close-up of glides under table legs to protect the floor covering

Invisible Helpers: What Furniture Gliders from VS Do

Comfort and aesthetic designs of furniture are important to you: Whether for classrooms and cafeterias in school or university buildings, in your company’s offices or conference rooms, or for events of any kind.
But there is one aspect that you should not ignore: Chair gliders.

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Close-up of the castor of a VS chair

Furniture Castors

Flexible room concepts need mobile furniture – and that usually has furniture castors. This is true for chairs and tables as it is for shelves, cabinets, office containers or room dividers. But what has to be considered so that everything rolls, brakes and steers as it should? 

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A boy learns on padded mats for floor-level learning from the FloorFriends series by VS.

Sitting well at school

You can't do without sitting. Sitting is one of the basic human postures - and an important one at that. We can relax while sitting, but we can also concentrate well and are capable of peak mental performance. An important prerequisite for learning.

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A light blue Hokki suspended on a table, next to a red Hokki on the floor

Learning and Moving

How can we design learning spaces so that they are as ergonomic as possible?

Ergonomics at School

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The PantoSwing-LuPo chair can easily be put on the table with piggy-back chair stacking

Piggyback etc. – All About Putting Chairs on Tables

Chairs on tables! That’s mostly the last thing pupils do before home time. Because that’s the only way that the room can be cleaned without extra work. We invented the “piggyback principle” way back in the 1950s - with the introduction of the wooden Skid chair - and we have been developing it continuously since then.

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Two girls learn and play with multifunctional floor elements such as the stacking stones and the Leaf tent of FloorFriends by VS.

Learning close to the ground – why children need movement

Children love to move around. They rarely like to stand still and are constantly changing their position if they are asked to be less active. This is completely normal, as children particularly enjoy working on the floor until they are around 11 or 12 years old.

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Roots and values

We are a traditional family business in its fourth generation that has been supporting the development of modern educational centres for over 125 years. With deep-rooted expertise and many years of experience, we design spaces that promote learning and working cultures and create a sense of well-being. 

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Our anniversary celebration

We celebrated our 125th birthday in September 2023 with great joy: at a company party for all employees and their partners and at an open day to which all interested parties were invited. 

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