Bauwerk Headquarters

A purpose-built workspace 700 years in development. Peek inside the headquarters of Bauwerk Colour–home to our business, family and a perpetual restoration project.

The European head office of Bauwerk Colour is situated in a fascinating 700 year old manor house in the German countryside. It provides endless inspiration for our extensive limewash paint colour collection, as well as a never-ending renovation project.  Learn more about our approach to historic renovations and why there are some things we just can't paint.

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Workspaces in manufacturing and production are typically not centres of inspiration..they’re all about speed and efficiency, purpose-built with that one thing in mind. But what about all the humans working inside these sterile vacuums? What about the toll on their well-being? It’s hard to believe anyone willingly signs up to have their creativity and inspiration stifled during the large proportion of life we spend at work.  Perhaps it’s that realisation that has led us to choose such an unusual headquarters for Bauwerk Colour. Or maybe we just can’t resist a perpetual restoration project (quite possibly a bit of both). Our personal and professional home serves as our muse—a German castle, our very own ‘Schloss’, nestled two hours south of Berlin amongst tranquil countryside.

The property was purchased by the co-founders of Bauwerk, Bronwyn and Andreas, 15 years ago. They fell in love with the house (and the historic plane tree out front of course) during a visit from Australia where they were living at the time. After the essential updates to make it liveable and a global move, we started working out of the castle seven years ago. The Schloss is now the base of Bauwerk Colour's operations for the Northern Hemisphere–not only where we run the business, but where colours are developed and mixed, and where orders are packed. We’ve been growing, so even in the short time since these photos were taken in 2021 for “The Ateliers of Europe” book by John Whelan and Oskar Proctor, some ‘departments’ have already moved into newly renovated barns on the property. Just another stage in the very long history of this incredible property.

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"Even though we own a paint company, there are some rooms we won’t touch with a paintbrush. We just can’t bring ourselves to paint over walls with beautiful historic limewash that’s been there for centuries."

Bauwerk Workshop Photography by Oskar Proctor

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