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 Un bon design rend un produit compréhensible.

Il clarifie la structure du produit. Mieux encore, il peut faire parler le produit. Au mieux, il est explicite.

5 Un bon design est discret.

Les produits qui remplissent une fonction sont comme des outils. Ce ne sont ni des objets décoratifs, ni des œuvres d’art. Leur design doit donc être à la fois neutre et sobre, afin de laisser à l’utilisateur la possibilité de s’exprimer.

6 Un bon design est honnête.

Il ne rend pas un produit plus innovant, puissant ou précieux qu’il ne l’est en réalité. Il n’essaie pas de manipuler le consommateur avec des promesses qui ne peuvent pas être tenues.

7 Un bon design est durable.

Il évite d’être un objet de tendance pour ne jamais paraître démodé. Contrairement au design suivant la tendance, il perdure de nombreuses années, même dans la société actuelle du jetable.

8 Godt design er grundig helt ned til siste detalj.

Ingenting må være vilkårlig eller overlatt til tilfeldighetene. Omtanke og nøyaktighet i designprosessen viser respekt overfor forbrukeren.

9 Godt design er miljøvennlig.

Design gjør et viktig bidrag til bevaringen av miljøet. Den bevarer ressurser og minimerer fysisk og visuell forurensning gjennom hele produktets livssyklus.

Braun Design is environmentally friendly.

10. Dobrý design je minimalistický

Méně, ale lépe – soustředí se na podstatné aspekty a produkty nejsou zatíženy ničím nepodstatným. Návrat k čistotě, návrat k jednoduchosti.

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're building for a better life - back then, now and in the future.

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.

1957 | Gerd Alfred Müller

KM3/31

Un mélangeur ou « robot culinaire » très performant, précurseur d’une toute nouvelle génération : le « robot multifonction ». Au design épuré, simple et pratique, l’un des produits industriels les plus emblématiques de tous les temps.

1963 | Reinhold Weiss

KSM 1/11

Minimalističtější design byste našli jen stěží: mlýnek na kávu tak praktický, že k jeho ovládání postačí jen jediné tlačítko. Jemně namletá káva dostupná na jediný dotek prstu.

1963 | Reinhold Weiss

HT 2

Tento elegantní, minimalizovaný design natolik inspiroval renomovaného umělce Richarda Hamiltona, že podle něj vytvořil jedno ze svých děl (příhodně nazvané „Toaster“). A mimochodem, tento toustovač také uměl připravit dokonale opečené tousty.

1972 | Florian Seiffert

KF 20

Díky vertikálnímu designu, který připomínal vodojem, se KF 20 přezdívalo Aromaster. Tento kávovar, proslulý svým neobvyklým tvarem, dodal běžné ranní filtrované kávě punc jedinečnosti.

1972 | Jürgen Greubel, Dieter Rams

MPZ 22

Tento elektrický odšťavňovač, známý také jako citromatic, se stal na dlouhá desetiletí spolehlivým a neuvěřitelně snadno udržovatelným pomocníkem v kuchyních po celém světě. Trvalo přes 20 let, než se firma Braun rozhodla jeho design zmodernizovat.

1981 | Ludwig Littmann

MR 6

Précurseur du MR 500, plus sophistiqué, le MR 6 robuste et résistant pouvait mélanger des aliments que d’autres appareils ne pouvaient pas travailler. Une étape importante sur la voie du perfectionnement des mélangeurs à main.

1984 | Hartwig Kahlcke

KF 40

Cette cafetière électrique fit polémique chez Braun, en raison du choix du polypropylène rentable et non du polycarbonate plus solide généralement utilisé par Braun. La surface ondulée du KF 40 signe dès lors le design précurseur de Dieter Rams.

2016 | Markus Orthey, Ludwig Littmann

MultiQuick 9

Un mélangeur à main polyvalent qui réunit les fonctionnalités des plus grands appareils de cuisine en un simple petit appareil. La définition d’un design minimaliste : compact et puissant.

Un bref rappel de l’histoire des appareils ménagers de Braun.

Le succès actuel des appareils ménagers de Braun repose sur le savoir-faire d’une entreprise qui mise sur l’excellence de la science et un développement réfléchi. Nous avons rassemblé quelques-unes des principales idées brillantes de Braun, de ses débuts à nos jours. Pour voyager plus longuement dans le temps et vivre une expérience en ligne passionnante, visitez le musée virtuel de Braun.

Visiter le musée

Food preparation

Cooking

Breakfast

Garment Care

Get inspired

Support

Food preparation

Cooking

Breakfast

Garment Care

Get inspired

Support

Braun.
Designed for what matters.

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

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.

We're building for a better life - back then, now and in the future.

Un bref rappel de l’histoire des appareils ménagers de Braun.

Food preparation

Cooking

Breakfast

Žehlení

Kolekce

Sustainability

Služba

Search Quick Links

Food preparation

Cooking

Breakfast

Garment Care

Get inspired

Support

Food preparation

Cooking

Breakfast

Garment Care

Get inspired

Support

Braun.Designed for what matters.

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

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.

We're building for a better life - back then, now and in the future.

Un bref rappel de l’histoire des appareils ménagers de Braun.

Food preparation

Cooking

Breakfast

Žehlení

Kolekce

Sustainability

Služba

Europe

Africa & Middle East

Americas

Asia - Pacific

rahvusvaheline

Braun.
Designed for what matters.