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-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