Company Profile
We make furniture. Furniture for people. Furniture that makes sense.
We want people to be able to sit comfortably, wherever they are: in conference rooms and at the airport, in the office or at the theatre. That’s why we produce furniture to cater for a whole range of working and living environments. The furniture is manufactured at our own plant in Rheinau, ensuring that our products are outstanding quality and the workmanship and materials are perfect.
Furniture can only be described as fit for purpose when it fulfils users’ requirements 100%. That is our ethos when it comes to design and manufacturing.
The Brunner company history speaks for itself: Today’s family-owned company was founded 30 years ago, when Rolf Brunner had just finished his vocational training to become a banker and was working for a furniture manufacturer. When Heidelberg University proved too demanding a customer and his boss wanted to decline the order, Rolf suddenly declared he was going to meet the demand – in his sole responsibility. His entrepreneurial ambition had been awakened: He took a loan from the bank and from his grandfather and, together with his wife Helena, he founded his own company. Assembly, packaging and delivery was done by themselves, and the order was transported in an old Red Cross bus to the client’s doorstep – on time and to the client’s entire satisfaction. So even this first order was a custom-made product, a chair with a special width made specifically for the University’s lecture halls.
Furniture that makes sense
This distinct customer orientation has remained the company’s hallmark. Rolf Brunner visited his customers, took a good look at the situation, did personal consultation himself – this special chair for that special floor etc. In the beginning, it was all about big halls – multi-purpose halls and convention halls were the latest craze in the late 70s. And when the respective applications called for modifications of the models, Brunner would find a solution.
For more than 30 years, the company has been developing their own models, by now more than 100 series. And still to this day, modifying products according to the clients’ needs is a Brunner specialty – no problem thanks to their own manufacturing facilities. Or new products are being developed in co-operation right from the very start: this is how the comfort seat for the plaza series has been developed together with Porsche.
The name as guarantee
It has always been the ambition of Brunner to fulfill the most diverse demands on chairs and their properties and to find an answer to practically all situations in which people sit. This also means to always propose new things, not to be content with yesterday’s results – but to present even better solutions, and even more adequate answers to very specific demands.
Brunner GmbH still is a family-owned company, by now in its second generation: Marc, the son, is acting as third managing director beside his parents. And the fact that the family name is also the company name is no coincidence. Because there’s probably no better guarantee for quality, timely delivery and the right chair in the right place than one’s own name.
