A managing director’s home office: how Björn Mauersberger found his DeskPURE
Sometimes a decision starts with an idle scroll through Instagram and ends with a piece of furniture that anchors the room. Björn Mauersberger, managing director of Unternehmerbank Konzept, was fitting out his new office. What he wanted: a desk he’d be spending most of his working day at, one that feels calm, has presence and has nothing contrived about it. What he chose was a DeskPURE in oak.
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“When I walk into the room first thing and see this desk: beautifully simple, inviting. It’s always a good feeling to start work.” - Björn Mauersberger |
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A managing director’s home office: why the choice of desk decides everything
Anyone who works from home as an owner or managing director knows the paradox: the room is private, the impression it makes is public. On a video call, in an internal meeting, in your own head. The desk isn’t just any piece of furniture here. It’s the one piece you spend most of your working day at. Björn puts it like this: “For me a desk is a really fundamental piece of furniture in an office, because that’s where I spend most of my day.”
If that desk feels calm, it gives the room its order. If it’s loud, everything else looks like a stopgap. That is exactly where EDELHOLZ comes in, and exactly why Björn chose it.
DeskPURE in oak: details and the room
Swiss edge, solid oak legs, built-in cable management: deliberately pared back, cleanly made.
The person behind it
Björn Mauersberger is managing director of Unternehmerbank Konzept, a company that supports medium-sized businesses with their liquidity planning. His day-to-day work is clarity under time pressure: reading figures, developing strategies, making decisions. His new office was meant to reflect that. Nothing staged, just a room where clear thinking is possible. The desk lives up to that every day.
From an Instagram scroll to the desk
Björn’s story is refreshingly honest: “It really was an impulse buy. We were fitting out a new office here, and I came across this great desk on Instagram. I liked it so much that I went to your website and took a closer look, and thought, I’ll just give them a call.”
The original plan was a corner desk, the ArcPURE. He liked it a lot, but it didn’t fit the room. So, plan B. “Which was also the reason we went for the simple version.” The spur-of-the-moment call became a consultation, and the consultation became an order. The DeskPURE takes the place of the corner desk, and the room can breathe.
Made in Germany, not in Asia
It wasn’t only the design that tipped the decision. In Björn’s words: “First I liked the product. And then when I saw that you’re a Dresden company, that it’s made by a joinery in Dresden, not imported from somewhere in Asia but genuinely made by hand, a real craft, that’s what convinced me overall.”
For many managing directors, Made in Germany isn’t a marketing stamp. It’s a value. If you carry responsibility yourself, you know what lies behind work made by hand: people, skill, short supply chains instead of long ones. Every EDELHOLZ desk is built to order in our workshop in Germany, by master craftsmen, not by robots.
The Swiss edge: when solid oak looks slim
Solid timber has one quirk: it quickly looks heavy. Unless you work the edge. Björn describes his impression like this: “I like the slim form. It looks incredibly slim. It looks as if it’s made from a single piece. There are no frills. The design is kept super simple.”
The secret is the Swiss edge, a bevelled profile that tapers the 26 mm top to a 5 mm line at the front. The result: real substance, a light look. The stability stays, yet the desk looks as if it’s made from a single piece.
Keep it smart. Keep it simple.
Oak is a deliberate choice. Hard, long-lasting, with a warm tone that develops a patina over the years. Björn: “I really like this colour too, this oak colour. It has a very simple, timeless form.”
His closing line could have come from us: “For anyone whose attitude is ‘keep it smart, keep it simple’, this is the ideal desk.” That is EDELHOLZ: substance over pose, calm over noise.
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In short: when the desk becomes a quiet calling card
Björn’s story is a short one, really: Instagram, a call, a consultation, an order, delivery. But in between lies the thing that counts with a purchase of this size: trust. Trust in the product, in the workshop, in the decision. The DeskPURE delivers that trust every morning when he walks into the room: “beautifully simple, inviting. It’s always a good feeling to start work.”
If you’re looking for a desk that isn’t loud but has presence, that has substance without putting it on show, let’s talk. We’ll configure it together with you: dimensions, wood, add-ons.
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Philipp Strobel is a qualified automotive engineer. He brings an engineer’s way of thinking to running a business, and develops desks in which function and design come out of one system. He has been developing products in wood since 2017, and since 2024, with EDELHOLZ, desks for business owners.
