{"id":1495,"date":"2011-12-17T12:21:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T12:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambivalenz.org\/?page_id=1495"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:06:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ambivalenz.org\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Ambivalenz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"row row-collapse row-full-width\"  id=\"row-1795687872\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1065180214\" class=\"col medium-5 small-12 large-5\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover\" id=\"banner-1245815970\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" >\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/ambivalenz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ambivalenz_flaepps_wand_hoch.jpg\" class=\"bg attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" \/>                                    \n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-1245815970 {\n  padding-top: 640px;\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-2103700418\" class=\"col medium-7 small-12 large-7\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover\" id=\"banner-50282028\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" >\n                                                \n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>            \n\n   <div id=\"text-box-429034389\" class=\"text-box banner-layer x50 md-x50 lg-x50 y50 md-y50 lg-y50 res-text\">\n                                <div class=\"text-box-content text \">\n              \n              <div class=\"text-inner text-left\">\n                  \n\n\t<div id=\"gap-1675107304\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1675107304 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<h1>About Ambivalenz<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 130%\">Ambivalence normally means not being able to decide. Here it means not having to. Since 2012 we have been building furniture in Berlin that refuses to commit \u2013 shelves that disappear, chairs that hang on the wall, and a sofa that can be a different one every day.<\/span><\/p>\n\t<div id=\"gap-976585771\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-976585771 {\n  padding-top: 5px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n              <\/div>\n           <\/div>\n                            \n<style>\n#text-box-429034389 {\n  width: 66%;\n}\n#text-box-429034389 .text-box-content {\n  font-size: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n    <\/div>\n \n\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-50282028 {\n  padding-top: 640px;\n  background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-271041116\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-383748979\" class=\"col medium-2 small-12 large-2\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-96700326\" class=\"col medium-8 small-12 large-8\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<h2>It started with a chair<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Malte Grieb, who founded Ambivalenz, is not a trained designer but an economist. Perhaps that is exactly why he arrived at a question the furniture industry rarely asks: why does a chair get in the way when nobody is sitting on it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The answer was a folding chair in birch plywood that folds down to two centimetres and then hangs on the wall \u2013 like a picture. Only: the fitting that makes this possible didn&#8217;t exist. So he developed it himself, together with designer Sebastian Feucht. A good year of tinkering, and the mechanism worked. The chair became Fl\u00e4pps \u2013 and Fl\u00e4pps became a whole system.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Fl\u00e4pps \u2013 furniture that steps back<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Today Fl\u00e4pps is a wall-mounted furniture system for almost everything: desk, shelf, coat rack, kitchen table, vanity table, shoe rack. Every module is a piece of furniture in its own right, and they all combine freely. Folded open, full function; folded shut, a flat surface against the wall \u2013 and with the printed modules, a picture on it. The motifs come from selected graphic artists we work with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">And because instructions that double as a drilling template help more than any advertising promise: mounting is easier than you think.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Curt \u2013 the sofa that won&#8217;t commit<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Curt arrived in 2020, designed together with German-Canadian designer Joa Herrenknecht. Curt is a modular sofa built from a single module shape \u2013 a pouf with a square base. The modules are joined by a strap system developed for the purpose: hook in, pull tight, done. And if tomorrow you would rather have a corner sofa than a three-seater \u2013 unhook, rearrange, done. No tools, no commitment, no connection made for eternity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Considered, not decorated<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">One principle hasn&#8217;t changed since 2012: no product enters the collection just because it looks different. It needs a new function, a twist in modularity \u2013 or minimalism thought through to the end. The ideas rarely come from the drawing board and mostly from everyday life: the guitar shelf, for instance, came about because a new guitar had nowhere to go at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">We like furniture that stays for a long time \u2013 even when everything around it changes. That is why Curt covers are removable, exchangeable and combinable, why you can reorder individual modules and parts instead of buying new, and why we are more likely to be filing away at a fitting than at a claim. Production takes place in the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">If you would like to see it all: our showroom at Eberswalder Stra\u00dfe 34, 10437 Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg) is open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Curious? <a href=\"\/en\/product-category\/the-flaepps-system\/\">Discover Fl\u00e4pps<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/en\/product-category\/modular-sofas\/\">Discover Curt<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/en\/the-curt-sofa-configurator\/\">Configure your sofa<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/en\/contract-furniture\/\">Contract furniture for hotels &amp; offices<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-96700326 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 20px 0px 40px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1959762960\" class=\"col medium-2 small-12 large-2\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1495","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>About AMBIVALENZ \u2013 Folding Furniture &amp; Modular Sofas from Berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Founded in Berlin in 2012: Ambivalenz builds furniture that won&#039;t commit \u2013 folding wall furniture and the modular sofa Curt. 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