Kitchens for Life

Ulrich W. Siekmann is the third generation of his family to run SieMatic Möbelwerke GmbH & Co. KG – a company that has been making kitchen furnishings for almost 85 years. Since the mid-1950s, the brand has been dedicating its efforts to the logical and systematic development of the fitted kitchen. Today, thanks to a portfolio encompassing 17 design concepts and product lines, it is able to satisfy customers’ requirements right down to the last detail. And regardless of whether the customer opts for the “S1” designer kitchen, the new “S3” or a “BeauxArts” solution, he can always be sure of getting the proverbial quality that SieMatic stands for in markets right across the world.

SieMatic caters to the growing demand for individuality, convenience and design with a remarkable choice of lacquer colours, materials and finishes, meticulously crafted to ensure each and every kitchen is unique. Customers can count on painstaking advance planning and a perfectly fitted kitchen. Those with even more specific requirements will be delighted by SieMatic’s portfolio too: the “S3” kitchen, for instance, features a handle concept that allows customers to create individual accents by mixing and matching the colours of the recessed aluminium grips.

This detail alone is convincing proof that SieMatic’s ground-breaking inventions of the past – which include the handleless kitchen or the launch of robust surface finishes – were merely the beginning of a long line of innovative triumphs. Down to the present day, it is the continuing development of functionality, ergonomics and design options that determines the value, character and durability of SieMatic’s kitchens and spatial concepts.

Yet despite all the individualisation the complex product permits, Ulrich W. Siekmann still sees the company as an industrial undertaking that interfaces with craftsmanship. He also construes the word “kitchen” in a much broader sense: “We don’t produce kitchens, we produce interior design for the kitchen!”

On the basis of this slogan and three sophisticated spatial concepts that dovetail the functions of the kitchen with those of the living area, Siekmann interprets the space per se as a “playing field”, surmounts the natural limits of the furniture and integrates the interior finishings by means of all the aspects and possibilities inherent in their craftsmanship. The CEO also firmly believes that anything that can be drawn is ultimately feasible.

This attitude is applied to each and every order, regardless of whether it’s for a kitchen in a detached house or a small production run for an apartment complex – anywhere in the world. The products themselves, however, are made entirely in Germany: everything is produced at a sole location in Löhne where, since 1929, the company and its highly-motivated workforce (which currently numbers 450 employees) have been turning customers’ dreams of the perfect kitchen into reality.

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Photos: Heiner Köpcke, SieMatic

SieMatic Möbelwerke GmbH & Co. KG
August-Siekmann-Strasse 1–5
DE-32582 Löhne
Tel. 0049 (0) 5732 67 0
Fax 0049 (0) 5732 67 297
info@siematic.de