The company director of Walter Knoll and his wife wished to find a Stuttgart base that would enable them to offer their business partners an alternative meeting place to the company headquarters and to live there, too. The house they found – a "coffee-grinder house," typical of the 1920s – used to function as a doctor’s practice, so the layout was restored in line with its original purpose and with respect for the building’s structure and history. On one hand our task was to create a home environment. On the other hand, products from Walter Knoll were to be staged in an authentic and atmospheric context.