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 Good design makes a product understandable.

It clarifies the product’s structure. Better still, it can make the product talk. At best, it is self-explanatory.

5 Good design is unobtrusive.

Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user’s self-expression.

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 bra formgivningsregler innebär så lite konstruktion som möjligt.

Mindre, men bättre – eftersom den fokuserar de väsentliga aspekterna och inte belastar produkten med oväsentligheter. Tillbaka till det rena och enkla.

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.

Vi bygger för ett bättre liv – då, nu och i framtiden.

1953 | Brauns fabrik

Brauns mixer Multimix

'På 50-talet skapades milkshaken som en västerländsk basvara, som delvis möjliggjordes av Multimix, den toppmoderna mixern med en löstagbar glasbehållare. Den skär ingredienser med industriell effektivitet. Fortfarande vanligt använd i köken.

Braun Multimix Blender – Braun Factory 1953

1957 | Gerd Alfred Müller

KM3/31

En mycket tongivande mixer eller ”matberedare” eftersom den gav upphov till den helt nya produktkategorin ”köksapparater”. Genom sin hyperreducerade, enkla och användbara formgivning en av de mest tongivande industriprodukterna genom tiderna.

1963 | Reinhold Weiss

KSM 1/11

Formgivning blir inte mer minimalistisk än så här: en kaffekvarn så ändamålsanpassad att det bara behövdes en knapp i mitten för att använda den. Bara en tryckning behövdes för att få finmalt kaffe.

1963 | Reinhold Weiss

HT 2

Den här brödrostens eleganta, reducerade formgivning inspirerade den berömda konstnären Richard Hamilton till den grad att den blev föremål för ett av hans verk, passande nog kallat ”brödrost”. Just det, den rostade också brödet till perfektion.

1972 | Florian Seiffert

KF 20

KF 20 som även hade namnet Aromaster hade en vertikalt ”staplad” form som påminner om ett vattentorn. Denna kaffebryggare stack ut genom den okonventionella formen som gav en extraordinär känsla till morgonkaffet varje dag.

1972 | Jürgen Greubel, Dieter Rams

MPZ 22

Denna elektriska juicepress var ett pålitligt tillbehör som var otroligt lätt att rengöra och fanns i kök över hela världen under årtionden. Det tog över två decennier innan Braun bestämde sig för att uppdatera den ursprungliga konstruktionen.

1981 | Ludwig Littmann

MR 6

MR 6 var föregångare till den mer sofistikerade MR 500, men var robust och tålig, och kunde användas för livsmedel som andra maskiner inte klarade. En viktig språngbräda på vägen mot en finslipad handmixer.

1984 | Hartwig Kahlcke

KF 40

Denna kaffebryggare var en aning kontroversiell inom Braun, tillverkad av kostnadseffektiv polypropen istället för Brauns favoritplast polykarbonat. Den strukturerade ytan på KF 40 företräder därför den formgivningslösning som övertygade Dieter Rams.

2016 | Markus Orthey, Ludwig Littmann

MultiQuick 9

En allsidig matmixer med funktioner från olika apparater flera gånger så stora i en enkel, handhållen stav. Definitionen av reducerad formgivning: kompakt men effektiv.

En sammanfattning av Brauns hushållsprodukters historia.

Dagens framgångar för Brauns hushållsprodukter bygger på företagets historia av gedigen kunskap och genomtänkt utveckling. Vi har samlat några av Brauns föregångsexempel, från början fram till idag. Ännu mer att se och en spännande onlineupplevelse väntar om du besöker det virtuella Braun-museet.

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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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From inventor’s workshop to global brand

Ingenious.

Helpful.

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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