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Production and sales of design classics E2 In 1953 Egon Eiermann had the idea to connect two side piece frames with a cross-shaped rod in order to create a table frame with good flexural strength. In the original design, which was only produced in small numbers, the frame pieces were permanently welded to the cross piece. It was only when one of Eiermann's assistants wanted to relocate and thereby asked Adam Wieland, the foreman of the Technische Universität Karlsruhe's metal workshop to take the table apart for transport that he came upon the idea to make half-shell type attachments for the crossbar thereby making disassembly, reassembly and transport immeasurably easier. Ever since then the metal workshop at the Technische Universität Karlsruhe had been producing the tables in this newer design – at first only in small amounts for students and assistants in that field of study but later in ever larger amounts for interested parties all over Germany. In 1993, Adam left the university and finally got self-employed. During the last 45 years, the table became THE table for architects and designers. Today, the E2 is sold to customers all over the world - but still hand made in our traditional location in Karlsruhe/Germany.

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