Brunner GmbH is a German family-owned contract seating company, founded in 1977 by Rolf and Helena Brunner — with a founding story told as legend: the two set out in a second-hand VW Bulli to fulfil an order that their then employer had declared "impossible". That moment defined the company philosophy: "Making the impossible possible." In 1978 the first production hall was completed in Rheinau (Baden); this location remains the company's sole manufacturing base to this day. Today the second generation leads the company: Dr. Marc Brunner, Tina Lüdemann (née Brunner) and Philip Brunner. Over 500 employees. Annual capacity: 500,000 chairs and 100,000 tables. Subsidiaries: Brunner UK Ltd. (founded 2003), Brunner SAS (France), Brunner AG Furniture Solution (Switzerland, formerly Sedorama AG). Clients include Apple, Google and other international corporations. Made in Germany.

New build Brunner Innovation Factory: the building constructed on the Rheinau company premises, designed by architecture firm HENN (Munich), combines production, development, offices, research workshops, showroom and logistics under one roof. The exposed timber-and-steel construction with glued laminated timber beams architecturally reflects Brunner's craft-based production philosophy. Designers: jehs+laub, Archirivolto, Wolfgang C.R. Mezger, osko+deichmann, atelier oï, Roland Schmidt Design, Steffen Kehrle. Range: chairs, tables and occasional furniture for offices, administrative buildings, public spaces, restaurants, hotels, clinics and care facilities. Recent products: Ray work (office swivel chair, jehs+laub, automatic weight adjustment), Foild (foldable partition system, atelier oï).

For architects and workplace designers seeking a Made-in-Germany specialist for fully customisable, cross-sector contract furniture, Brunner is the most reliable address in Baden's furniture industry — with a founding legend that shapes design DNA across generations and a production capacity that makes even large-scale projects reliably deliverable.