What a blessing it is to listen.

To truly listen—to hear the warmth in wood, the honesty in metal, the hum of legacy vibrating through a century of sound. For 100 years, Bang & Olufsen has built a universe around that sensation: the kind of listening that’s as much about emotion as it is about acoustics. With The Centennial Collection, the Danish house doesn’t just mark a milestone—it reimagines it.

Three designs, three eras, one ongoing devotion to form and fidelity. The Beoplay H100, Beosound A5, and Beosound A9 are resurrected through archival detail and material mastery. Each piece recalls a different chapter of the brand’s story—the raffia weave of the 1950s, the brushed aluminium of the 1980s, the exuberant palette of the 1970s—filtered through the lens of today’s restrained sophistication. It’s nostalgia, refined; heritage, on repeat.

The Beoplay H100, clad in Chestnut Brown leather and threaded with Century Blue accents, feels like the auditory equivalent of a collector’s car: gorgeous because it’s built to last. The Beosound A5, with its tactile weave and Century Red strap, looks ready to soundtrack an afternoon in a sunlit studio. And the Beosound A9, now wrapped in Kvadrat’s checkered Centennial Cadence fabric, is proof that minimalism can, in fact, sing.\

Each piece bears a small engraving—Est. 1925—and a quiet commandment: “A never failing will to create only the best.” Nearly a century later, it’s less a tagline and more a vow renewed. Because what Bang & Olufsen really celebrates isn’t just the sound of the past—it’s the art of still listening.

The Centennial Collection is available now at selected Bang & Olufsen stores and online.

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