Man’s natural ability to sit is unique and inimitable – the same goes for our passion! We at Kusch+Co, develop, create and manufacture individual seating and interior design solutions. Our daily motivation is to cater to the wishes and requirements of every single user; after all, it is for them that we go the extra mile and take on new challenges.

The history of Kusch+Co, which is inextricably linked with the town of Hallenberg, is the bedrock and the pride of our company: in 1939, Ernst Kusch established here the “Manufaktur Holzindustrie E. Kusch & Co. KG, better known under its brand name “Sauerland Stabil”. Right from the start, he pursued the long-term goal to assume an entrepreneurial as well as corporate responsibility towards the customers, partners, staff members and the environment. Committed to his father’s values and principles, Dieter Kusch joined the General Management in 1963, and became the CEO only six years later. Following the untimely death of her brother Andreas, Ricarda Kusch has been at the helm of the company since 2006. And now, integrated into the Nowy Styl Group, we carry on the tradition-steeped family philosophy. Though we have grown to become a globally operating company, we stay true to our roots. That is why our headquarters is still located in our home town of Hallenberg.

Here in the Sauerland region, we laid the cornerstone for our success: Programm 100 – our “original” chair. Boasting a well-thought-out construction, it was the first industrially produced chair by our company. Neither the company’s founder Ernst Kusch nor his successors relied on this best-seller. Ever since, they have been tirelessly developing new seating series, and reinventing the way we sit. Our ultimate goal, now and then, is to design aesthetically appealing as well as highly functional, technically sophisticated seating and table series that can be tailored to personal and individual requirements. In short: we create solutions with a soul!

In order to realise this vision, we are committed to a respectful communication and interaction with each other and to our corporate values : we listen attentively  to our customers and to all our current and future users; we carefully examine the actual room layout and work out in close co-operation user-focused seating and room concepts. For this reason, we usually start where others give up. We constantly look for creative, bold solutions tailored to individual requirements. With precision and a keen eye for detail, we create well-thought-out products and solutions – not afraid to ask ourselves uncomfortable questions. The results speak for themselves: for more than 80 years, we successfully handled every challenge, and will continue to find new answers for a wide range of requirements as well as for the ever-changing living and working environments.

Kusch+Co started as a family business and became a well-known brand with unique products, that are recognized all over the world. The change was in the air – not only Kusch+Co evolved, but also the market. For further development, the company needed to join its forces with a bigger player – not only in the terms of the organisation’s size. The diversification between different sectors together with the corporate values were a pivotal factor. Only a family company with similar values could truly understand and fulfil Kusch+Co’s potential. The choice was clear: Nowy Styl.

Since 2019 Kusch+Co has been a brand by Nowy Styl, a European leader in comprehensive furniture solutions for office and public spaces.  The unique business model allows Nowy Styl to provide clients with a complete interior furnishing service, based on an in-depth analysis of the specificity and needs of the customer, work efficiency as well as work organization, ergonomics and acoustics. Owing to the company’s experience as well as technological and production facilities, each offer is made to measure.

Due to its specific competences, Kusch+Co enriches the portfolio of Nowy Styl. Together, these brands offer a wide range of different products and services, and they both profit from the cooperation. Kusch+Co being Kusch+Co, Nowy Styl being Nowy Styl.

A good understanding of customers’ needs, innovation and an organisational culture open to change has led Nowy Styl to the position of one of the largest and most dynamically developing companies in the industry in Europe.

Office work is as diverse as the people who perform the tasks. Office work is also permanently evolving. The principle of “New Work” sets the tone for future office environments – i.e. digital, agile and sustainable. The digital transformation introduced modern and agile working methods, and as a result, new office layouts and interior design concepts – independent of the line of business or the brand name. Flexibility is key here. Add to this, the demanding requirements applicable to healthy office environments, where ergonomic workstations are the new benchmark. For this division, we offer a variety of series that meet all the requirements related to ergonomics and occupational health.

Kusch+Co collection for office environments is complemented by office furniture solutions by Nowy Styl. Together, the brands offer comprehensive portfolio for modern working worlds.

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Encompassing airports, terminals for passenger liners as well as railway and bus stations. In our global world, these places are the gateways of our mobile society. Kusch+Co has established an excellent reputation in the field of Airport Seating, having furnished more than 260 international airports with their waiting benches, bench configurations or lounge seating. These series are specifically designed for the use in these environments and fulfil the stringent requirements with regard to safety, functionality, design, comfort and use value.

Their portfolio includes the time-tested Terminal benches as well as the upmarket bench series 8000. And with the launch of the bench and seat islands 8300/8350 V-Travel, they introduced a new generation of airport seating. On top of this, they boast a long-time experience and know-how in the field of planning and project management; a service which is appreciated by architects and project developers. Their portfolio also offers a wide range of elegant seating solutions for other airport environments, such as conference areas, restaurants, counters, tower, offices, and service areas.

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Ancient civilizations were familiar with the healing properties of rooms – an aspect that has regained a seminal role in the interior design of hospitals and healthcare facilities. Special attention is given to the overall room atmosphere, with the aim of making patients – not forgetting the visitors and the nursing staff – feel at ease, secure, and comfortable. Next to the architectural aspects, the seating can be a key component to guarantee an agreeable hospital stay and to facilitate the work for the nursing staff. Specifically for these environments, we developed several heavy-duty, robust and easy-to-handle collections geared towards people with individual disabilities. Thanks to their experience, Kusch+Co is a strong and reliable partner in the furniture division care.

Our portfolio is functionally complemented by our solutions: the seating and tables of our kuschmed^® Hygienic-Line have easy-to-clean surfaces, and therefore suited for hygiene-sensitive environments.

Fire Prevention – when equipped with the Kusch+Co, our seating offers more safety in case of fire.

Reduced Mobility
People, suffering from reduced mobility for a wide variety of reasons, have to cope with many different challenges in their environment. Especially senior citizens, pregnant women, as well as very small, tall or corpulent persons, not forgetting persons with an individual disability, often have difficulties to take a seat and even more so to subsequently get up. These problems mainly originate from the dimensions of seating, as width and height are usually standardized. Or the seating provides insufficient support. For this reason, Kusch+Co has selected a range of series that are available in a variety of different seat heights as standard, with reinforced armrests, or inclined upholstered pads. They have even more bespoke solutions for orthopaedic wards, capable of carrying a body weight between 150 and 300 kilograms. Special attention is given to the seating geared towards the market segment Travel : most bench series come with the standard option to incorporate resp. retrofit PRM-seats or table tops at a bespoke height. As a result, these variations meet the specific requirements and wishes of all passengers and travelers with a disability – in compliance with the EU regulations on PRM equipment for all airline passengers (PRM = persons with reduced mobility).

Public buildings, such as hospitals, nursing homes and office buildings, are subject to stringent preventive building measures, including the requirement to keep the lobbies, waiting areas as well as corridors serving as escape routes in case of fire, free from any fire load. Standard-issue, flammable wooden-frame and upholstered seating are therefore not suited for these areas due to the heavy smoke development in case of fire. Thanks to the Kusch+Co Fire Prevention Concept, these much-frequented areas can be furnished with design-oriented as well as comfortable seating. For this purpose, a close-fitting, flexible fabric is incorporated in the upholstered pad between the foam and the upholstery cover. This special fabric – called flamline – is nonflammable, heavy-duty even in direct contact with fire and A2 nonflammable according to DIN 4102 as approved by the building authorities.This compound consisting of upholstery foam, nonflammable fabric and fabric meet all the requirements of the classification DIN 66084 P-a – the paper pillow test. The wooden parts are treated with a UV-curing, environmentally harmless water-based lacquer, and therefore, in compliance with DIN EN 13501 B s2 D0, graded low flammability. The development of potentially life-threatening amounts of smoke is prevented when the furniture features this concept.

As a result of the growing mobility and the trend towards globalization, the risk of spreading nosocomial infections and as such highly infectious diseases in public and much-frequented environments is on the rise. Many infections might have been prevented through hygiene-safe furniture and measures in hospitals, residential care and nursing homes, in lobbies, canteens and many other meeting points. Possible risks include open-pored wooden surfaces, grooves, spots that are inaccessible for wipe disinfection, non-removable upholstered pads or unsuited fabrics which are susceptible to a multitude of germs. The seating and tables from the kuschmed® Hygienic-Line make a positive contribution to the overall hygiene: these products provide a highly unfavourable breeding ground for bacteria, germs and mildew. For this purpose, all wooden, plastic and metal surfaces are pore-free, and some even contain antibacterial agents. On top of this, the removable upholstered pads are impervious to liquids as well as to germs; minimise the spread of germs among persons in fragile health, patients, visitors and employees; at the same time, they offer a skin-friendly comfort and  are characterized by a modern design.

Customers buying seating by Kusch+Co set high value on designer products of time-less beauty, and most of all on premium quality. We wish to do better and voluntarily raise the bar: that is why our products have to live up to our much stricter in-house quality standards. Each and every chair, armchair or table manu factured by Kusch+Co not only has to comply with the statutory standards and regulations, it has to live up to the mission statement of our corporate philosophy: “Quality is irreplaceable.”Our objective is to have each Kusch+Co product to come up to this mission statement. That is why our products consistently outperform the requirements of the normative standards.