Keilhauer is a Canadian manufacturer of contract seating and tables — founded in 1981 in Toronto (Ontario) by Arnold Keilhauer, whose company name carries the founder's initials and family name, whose ancestors as master-trained European saddlers and upholsterers brought a craft tradition to the New World. The privately-owned company is today led by President Mike Keilhauer and has its headquarters and both production facilities in Toronto. Keilhauer has become a global design leader, one of Canada's greenest employers and repeatedly recognised as a preferred employer. The production strategy deliberately prioritises local suppliers from Toronto and the region — short distances, quality control and sustainable community engagement as a strategic principle.
Designer collaborations: EOOS (Vienna/Austria) — Untucked collection (casual soft contract, 10 seating and table options for modern work environments), Talk series (141-degree communication angle as design principle), 141 bench (modular, V-shape for one-on-ones); Tom Deacon; Aaron Duke; Observatory Design (Rhode Island, poufs). Product categories: desk/task/conference/executive chairs, side chairs, stacking chairs, lounge armchairs, tables, benches. Collections: Untucked, Talk, 141, Swurve (carbon-neutral chair, 2020), Oro (lounge/work crossover), Orign. Sustainability programme: Planet Keilhauer (closed production loop, local community, environmental standards).
For architects and interior designers seeking for office, workplace, educational and public contract projects a privately-owned North American contract seating manufacturer founded in Toronto in 1981 by Arnold Keilhauer that with exclusive production in Toronto, designer collaborations with EOOS (Vienna) and the Swurve carbon-neutral chair (2020) — Keilhauer has connected since 1981 in Toronto the European craft tradition of its ancestors (saddlers and upholsterers) with Canadian production responsibility: all pieces manufactured in Toronto, carbon-neutral with the Swurve (2020), communication as design principle with EOOS's 141-degree Talk system.