If you’re on the same wavelength with someone, it’s gentle and positive way of agreeing with one another. To literally be on the same Wavelength bench with someone, it can mean the same – only perhaps it means you both agree that the design by Karim Rashid for Nienkämper is worthy of your weary legs.

Wavelength bench. Designed by Karim Rashid. Manufactured by Nienkämper.

Get on the Same Wavelength With Your Peers By Loving the Karim Rashid Wavelength Collection by Nienkämper.

Designed to “provide engaging seating for airports, public lobbies, retail outlets, and other public spaces”, the Nienkämper website describes its purpose as more than a simple, functional bench. Using a typical, robust style famously of a Karim Rashid original, the Wavelength is also a statement of form. With a back that flows like a wave in the ocean, the movement invigorates us to sit down and relax on the leather, vinyl, or fabric backrest atop its brushed or polished cast aluminum base.

Coming in a lounge chair besides the bench’s two- or three-seat options, Karim says, “The Wavelength Collection is designed with a sensual language that heightens comfort, flexibility, and diversity. I try to develop furniture as objects that bring enjoyment, not encumbrances that simplify tasks, and increase our level of and engagement of beauty. I have tried to accomplish this with Wavelength, whose waves continue metaphorically adinfinitum."

The flowing, silky lines that form the contoured backrest of the Wavelength Collection bench is ideal for any contract furniture setting that inspires folks to enjoy the artistic feel presented by Karim Rashid’s versatile design.

About the Manufacturer: Based in Toronto, Ontario since 1968, the simple idea of a functional, beautiful desk system drives home the Nienkämper design philosophy, stating simply "our design philosophy insists that clients' needs are distilled to their essence; energy is conserved; and unnecessary waste is eliminated."