C+P Möbelsysteme is a German family company for steel and hybrid furniture, founded in 1925 by Wilhelm Christmann and Otto Pfeifer in the Hessian hinterland as Christmann, Pfeifer & Co. for the manufacture of sheet metal and steel products for the construction industry. In the years following the Great Depression, the company began producing steel lockers, which later became its core product. By the mid-1940s the C+P group already employed 244 staff. In the 1960s, the next generation under Jacob Hainbach assumed divisional responsibility: Horst Hainbach for the furniture division, Walter Pfeifer for steel construction, and both transformed the company from a craft-based operation into a high-performance industrial organisation. In the late 1960s, a significant growth step was achieved through the acquisition of a customer base from the Schaffgotsch Group's subsidiary — and since then, two equal divisions (furniture and steel construction) have defined the company. Today C+P employs approximately 700 people. Locations: main plant and component manufacturing in Breidenbach (Hesse), branch in Gotha (Thuringia, former VEB Gothaer Metallwarenfabrik — acquired by C+P in 1991), plant in Legnica (Poland), logistics location with 40 own trucks and 80 furniture trailers.

Brand philosophy: "furniture for people" — the human being as the benchmark for dimensions, proportions and usability. Core material steel: stable, durable, 100% recyclable, infinitely relocatable, easy to clean; C+P combines steel with further materials as a "steel backbone" for hybrid furniture. Product range: steel lockers (changing rooms, cloakrooms — technical perfection and custom design); office and conference furniture; warehouse and workshop furniture; laboratory and medical furniture; custom solutions for industry, commerce and public institutions. Pioneering achievements: integration of wireless charging modules in series-produced products; development of acoustic, greening and water feature concepts; acoustically effective surfaces integrated into storage furniture. 2016: construction of a modern office world (Bürowelt) as exhibition and working environment. Reference projects: changing rooms for the Oregon Ducks US football team; office furnishing at Al Jalila Children's Specialty Hospital Dubai; changing rooms at Bucharest Thermal Bath. Own brands include: Acurado, Asisto, Cambio, Evolo, Omnispace.

For architects and workplace planners seeking a German steel furniture specialist for office, industrial, medical, educational and sports projects — one that has grown since 1925 as a family company, controls all manufacturing phases internally, integrates current workplace topics such as wireless charging and acoustic furniture into standard products, and documents its international ambition through reference projects from Oregon to Dubai — C+P Möbelsysteme is the most reliable Hessian address: a house that understands steel as a design material.