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Braun. Design for what matters.

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

Braun 1920 - Ingenius

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.
Braun 1940 - Helpful

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.
Braun 1951 – Visionary

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.
Braun 1960 – Less, but better

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.
Braun 1967 – Innovative

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.
Braun today

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 KM 3 food processor

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.

Braun innovative Design – Radio

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.

Braun useful Design – Citrus Juicer

3. Gutes Design ist ästhetisch.

Die ästhetische Qualität eines Produkts ist entscheidend für seinen Nutzen, denn Produkte, die wir täglich benutzen, beeinflussen unsere Person und unser Wohlbefinden. Doch nur gut umgesetzte Objekte können schön sein.

Braun innovative Design – Radio

4. Gutes Design macht ein Produkt verständlich.

Sie veranschaulicht die Struktur des Produkts. Besser noch, es kann das Produkt zum Sprechen bringen. Im besten Fall ist es selbsterklärend.

Braun innovative Design – Radio

5 謙虚である

目的を持った製品というものは、道具と似たところがある。それは、装飾的なものでも芸術品でもない。だから、製品のデザインは使う者に自己表現の余地を与えられるよう、中立的であり、主張してはいけない。

Braun Design is unobtrusive.

6 誠実である

製品を実際以上に革新的に、パワフルに、あるいは価値のあるものに見せない。守ることができない約束で消費者を操ろうとしない。

Braun Design is honest.

7 長命である

流行を追うことを避ける。だから決して時代遅れにならない。流行のデザインとは異なり、たとえ現代の使い捨て社会にあっても、長年にわたって生き残る。

Braun Design is long-lasting.

8 最終的にディティールへと帰結する

すべて、思いつきや偶然にゆだねられてはいけない。設計プロセスにおける細部への注意と正確さは、消費者に対する敬意の表れである。

Braun Design is thorough

9 環境への配慮とともにある

デザインは環境の保全に大きく貢献する。製品のライフサイクル全体を通じて資源を大切に扱い、物理的および視覚的な汚染を最小限に抑える。

Braun Design  is environmentally friendly.

10 可能な限りデザインを抑制する

デザインは少ないほうが良い。なぜなら、本質的な面に集中でき、製品が余計なものを背負わないからだ。混じりけのなさ、シンプルさに戻れ。

Braun Design – Less is more

フランクフルト近郊にあるクローネンバーグのブラウン・ミュージアムのビデオツアーをみる

ブラウンミュージアムには過去から現在に至るまでのブラウン製品の偉大な歴史の内幕と興味深い事実が展示されています。
Braun museum - Coffee machines

私たちはより良い生活のために素晴らしい製品を生み出します- 今までも、現在も、そして将来にも。

1953 | Braun Factory

Braun Multimix Blender

The 50's established the milkshake as a western staple, enabled in part by the Multimix, the state-of-the-art blender with a detachable mixing glass container. It cuts ingredients with industrial-grade efficacy. Still widely in use today.

Braun Multimix Blender – Braun Factory 1953

1957 | Gerd Alfred Müller

KM3/31

A hugely influential blender or “food processor” as it was known that birthed a whole new product category: “kitchen machines” or appliances. With its hyper-reduced, simple and useful design one of the most influential industrial products of all time.

Braun Food Processor

1963年 | ラインホルト・ヴァイス

KSM 1/11

これ以上にミニマルなデザインはない程のコーヒーミルです。細かく豆を挽くために唯一、ボタンを中央に一つだけ配置し、指でクリックするだけの簡単操作でした。

Braun Coffee Grinder

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.

Braun Toaster

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. 

Braun Coffee Maker Aromaster

1972 | Jürgen Greubel, Dieter Rams

MPZ 22

This electric juicer, also known as the citromatic, was a dependable and incredibly easy-to-clean staple of kitchens across the world for decades. It took over two decades before Braun decided an update to the original design was due.

Braun Citrus Juicer

1981 | Ludwig Littmann

MR 6

A precursor of the more sophisticated MR 500, the MR 6 was sturdy and tough, meaning it could blend foods that other products couldn't handle. An important stepping stone on the way to perfecting the handheld blender.

Braun Handblender

1984 | Hartwig Kahlcke

KF 40

This coffeemaker was somehow controversial within Braun, being made of cost-efficient polypropylene rather than sturdier polycarbonate, Braun's go-to plastic. Hence the KF 40's corrugated surface states a design solution that won over Dieter Rams.

Braun Coffee Maker

2016 | Markus Orthey, Ludwig Littmann

MultiQuick 9

An all-round food blender that condensed the functionalities of devices many times its size into a simple, handheld 'wand'. The definition of reduced design: compact, yet powerful.

Braun Handblender
Braun Museum

A brief story about the history of Braun household products.

Today’s success of Braun’s household products is based on a company history full of excellent science and thoughtful development. We have brought together a few of Braun’s leading light creations, from the very beginning until today. Even more time travelling and a thrilling online experience awaits if you visit the Virtual Braun Museum.
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