Braun.
Designed for what matters.

We believe that good design can make lives better - 100 years ago, now and in the future.

For 100 years, Braun has kept to three important principles, inspired by people: Good design is simple, useful and built to last. Until today, people all over the world turn to us because Braun products make life better. They trust in our brand when it counts the most: Whether they want to prepare that special dinner for a first date, iron their best shirt for an important job interview or prepare a vast breakfast for the whole family.

From inventor’s workshop to global brand

Ingenious.

In the early 1920s, engineer Max Braun founds a machine-building workshop in Frankfurt am Main. On the strength of its groundbreaking inventions for the emerging radio broadcasting industry, the firm opens its own factory building with 400 employees in 1928.

Helpful.

During the postwar period, Braun expands its product range with newly developed devices that simplify everyday life. In 1950, simultaneously with the first foil shaver, the Multimix food processor makes its market debut, inaugurating the company’s household line.

Visionary.

After the sudden death of Max Braun, his sons take the company helm in the early fifties. They lay the groundwork for a people-focused corporate culture that extends to all areas of the company – from its letterhead to its exhibition stands, its health service to its whole-foods cafeteria.

Less, but better.

Under the aegis of design legend Dieter Rams, Braun’s radical new Bauhaus-inspired, functional product design sets a new style standard. The company won a rapid succession of national and international prizes and awards for its products. Braun became world-famous as a design brand, and the company became the first to introduce “good design” to the mass market.

Innovative.

Braun reaches the limits of a family-run firm. In the late sixties, Gillette takes over the successful enterprise with its 5,700 employees. This opens up new markets and distribution channels to Braun. Investments increase the company’s innovative strength and broaden its product range, which soon grows to include coffeemakers and electric irons. Characteristic German design, quality and engineering prowess bolster Braun’s standing against cheaply produced competing products.

Today.

Procter & Gamble’s takeover of Gillette in 2005 makes Braun one of twenty-four global brands of the largest consumer-product group in the world. P&G transfers the rights to the Braun brand in the area of household appliances to De’Longhi S.p.A. in 2012. Along with the corresponding patents and production facilities, De’Longhi acquires a large part of Braun’s employees, thereby ensuring that Braun household appliances will continue to offer distinctive design, technological innovation and reliable quality far into the future.

Braun produced the KM 3 food processor for more than three decades.

Here you can see the KM 3-31 model from 1957. The development of the KM 3 began with the construction of a test model to determine the most suitable rotational speed for the drive. After extensive mixing and kneading trials, the development team designed the drive unit. When it came to the form of the KM 3, the design department developed various models of the base plate, bowl, mixing arm and motor base that were combined with the technology until the first preproduction model, the wistar, emerged.

The 10 Principles of Good Design by Dieter Rams

Hired as an architect for redesigning Braun’s office Dieter Rams became one of the leading designers, who developed Braun’s memorable design language and defined the 10 principles of good design, a design manual that is still relevant today.

1 Good design is innovative.

The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design.

2 Good design makes a product useful.

A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

3 Good design is aesthetic.

The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products we use every day affect our person and our well-being. But only well-executed objects can be beautiful.

4. Díky dobrému designu je produkt srozumitelný.

Objasňuje stavbu produktu. Nebo ještě lépe: může nechat produkt promluvit. V tom nejlepším případě je všeříkající.

5. Dobrý design je nevtíravý

Produkty splňující svůj účel jsou jako nástroje. Neslouží jen na ozdobu nebo jako umělecké předměty. Jejich design by proto měl být neutrální a zdrženlivý, aby poskytl uživateli prostor k sebevyjádření.

6 Good design is honest.

It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.

7 Good design is long-lasting.

It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years - even in today’s throwaway society.

8 Good design is thorough to the last detail.

Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

9 Good design is environmentally friendly.

Design makes an important contribution to the preservation of the environment. It conserves resources and minimises physical and visual pollution throughout the lifecycle of the product.

Braun Design is environmentally friendly.

10 Good design is as little design as possible.

Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with nonessentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

Take a video tour through the Braun Museum in Kronberg, near Frankfurt.

The Braun Museum showcases the great history of Braun with many insides and interesting facts and figures about products from the past and today.

We bouwen aan een beter leven: toen, nu en in de toekomst.

1953 | Usine Braun

Braun mixeur Multimix

Dans les années 1950, le milkshake a révolutionné l’occident, en partie grâce au robot Multimix, un mixeur ultra moderne équipé d’un bol en verre amovible. La découpe des ingrédients est d’une efficacité industrielle. Encore utilisé de nos jours.

Braun Multimix Blender – Braun Factory 1953

1957 г. | Герд Альфред Мюллер [Gerd Alfred Müller]

KM3/31

Блендер («кухонный комбайн»), оказавший огромное влияние на отрасль, породил новую категорию продуктов: «кухонные машины». Благодаря сверхлаконичному и удобному дизайну он является одним из самых влиятельных промышленных продуктов всех времен.

1963 г. | Рейнхольд Вайс [Reinhold Weiss]

KSM 1/11

Дизайн максимально минималистичен: кофемолка настолько специализированная, что для ее работы нужна была всего одна кнопка, расположенная по центру. Всего одним нажатием пальца можно было получить мелкоизмельченные кофейные зерна.

1963 | Reinhold Weiss

HT 2

This toaster’s sleek, reduced design so inspired renowned artist Richard Hamilton that he based one of his works (aptly titled ‘Toaster’) on it. Oh, and it also browned bread to perfection.

1972 | Florian Seiffert

KF 20

With a stacked, vertical design that resembled a water tower, the KF 20 was known as the Aromaster. Instantly recognizable for its unconventional shape, this coffee maker added a touch of the extraordinary to everyday morning filter coffee.

1972 г. | Юрген Грюбель [Jürgen Greubel], Дитер Рамс [Dieter Rams]

MPZ 22

Десятилетиями эта электрическая соковыжималка, также известная как Citromatic, была надежным и простым в очистке устройством на кухнях во всем мире. Прошло более двух десятилетий, прежде чем компания Braun решила обновить первоначальный дизайн.

1981 г. | Людвиг Литман [Ludwig Littmann]

МR 6

MR 6, предшественник более сложной модели MR 500, был прочным и крепким, и поэтому он мог смешивать продукты, не поддающиеся обработке другими устройствами. Важный шаг на пути к совершенствованию ручного блендера.

1984 г. | Хартвиг Кальке [Hartwig Kahlcke]

KF 40

Эта кофеварка вызывала в Braun разногласия, поскольку изготавливалась из экономичного полипропилена, а не привычного поликарбоната. Таким образом, рифленая поверхность кофеварок KF 40 представляет собой дизайнерское решение, победившее Дитера Рамса.

2016 г. | Маркус Ортей [Markus Orthey], Людвиг Литман [Ludwig Littmann]

MultiQuick 9

Универсальный блендер для пищевых продуктов, объединяющий функции устройств, во много раз превышающих его размер, в простой, ручной «насадке». Концепция уменьшенного дизайна: компактный, но мощный.

Краткий рассказ об истории бытовой техники компании Braun.

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From inventor’s workshop to global brand

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Less, but better.

Innovative.

Today.

Braun produced the KM 3 food processor for more than three decades.

The 10 Principles of Good Design by Dieter Rams

Take a video tour through the Braun Museum in Kronberg, near Frankfurt.

We bouwen aan een beter leven: toen, nu en in de toekomst.

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From inventor’s workshop to global brand

Ingenious.

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Visionary.

Less, but better.

Innovative.

Today.

Braun produced the KM 3 food processor for more than three decades.

The 10 Principles of Good Design by Dieter Rams

Take a video tour through the Braun Museum in Kronberg, near Frankfurt.

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