Neue Werkstatt isn't an audio company. Rather, it's a design studio with a focus on small scale manufacturing with environmentally sound materials and local German carpenters. The group previously designed a tool-less assembly bed frame, and a wall clock using materials from the Black Forest. The new NW3 speaker is its first electronics design. As a guarantee of quality, each carpenter involved signs the bottom of the speaker, and the wax finish was chosen with the health of those carpenters in mind. [via designboom]

Like a record label, Neue Werkstatt's products have catalog numbers. Head to their site to check out NW1 and NW2.