Norbert Wangen was born in Prüm, Germany, in 1962. He graduated in architecture at the Munich Technical University. In 1995 he took part in trade fairs in Munich and New York with the patented folding armchair Attila, which became part of the Neue Sammlung in Munich and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. In the same year, he invented the first kitchen with a sliding work surface, k2.
In 2002 he presented the kitchen K10 with a new folding ventilation system in Cologne and Milan. In 2003 the Norbert Wangen trademark was transferred to Boffi. In the following years the kitchen collection was enriched with k11 and k12. He launched the kitchen k14, the L10 washbasin in Carrara marble, and the w1 kitchen and bathroom taps in 2007. He also presented the k1 kitchen in 2009, the b20 and b21 bathroom cabinets and the k20 kitchen in 2012, and the K5, K6, and K6+6 models in 2019.