Offecct was founded in 1990 in Tibro, Sweden, by Kurt Tingdal and Anders Englund. Their starting point was simple and rather radical for a furniture company: the world is already full of products, so Offecct would only add to it when a piece could bring genuine value to people, architecture and society. The founders set out to create the meeting places of the future, where beauty and innovation sit alongside function, and to make furniture that helps people meet, think and create together.

Although its roots are Swedish, Offecct has always looked outward. It built its collection with architects and designers from around the world, among them Claesson Koivisto Rune, Jasper Morrison, Front, Luca Nichetto, Pauline Deltour, Lucy Kurrein, Jin Kuramoto and Teruhiro Yanagihara. Eero Koivisto worked with the brand for many years as external art director as well as designer. The company describes its outlook as an international take on Scandinavian design, balancing the radical and the functional, and its furniture is now found in workplaces, hotels, restaurants, airports and public spaces in more than 50 countries.

Sound has been part of the story for more than two decades. When Offecct began producing its Soundwave acoustic panels in 2002, it saw itself as a pioneer, and the range has since grown into a family of sculptural wall panels by leading designers, treated as much as art on the wall as acoustic tools. Experimentation has its own home too. Offecct Lab is the brand's forum for testing new materials and ideas with its partners, and it has produced pieces such as Jin by Jin Kuramoto, shaped from thin layers of flax fibre, and Soundsticks by Andrea Ruggiero, made from leftover material.

Sustainability runs through the whole business under a philosophy Offecct calls Lifecircle: taking responsibility for every part of a product before, during and after it leaves the company's hands, with bespoke upholstery, repair and reuse built in. In 2017 Offecct joined the group now known as Flokk, alongside HÅG, RH and Giroflex. Its most recent landmark, the Circulus modular sofa by Mario Ferrarini, was designed for circularity from the ground up and won the Red Dot: Best of the Best award in 2025.