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.

10 принципов хорошего дизайна Дитера Рамса

Дитер Рамс [Dieter Rams], нанятый в качестве архитектора для модернизации офиса компании Braun и ставший одним из ведущих дизайнеров, разработал язык дизайна компании Braun и определил 10 принципов хорошего дизайна, актуальные до сих пор.

1 Хороший дизайн инновационен.

Возможности для создания чего-то нового никоим образом не исчерпаны. Технологическое развитие всегда дает новые возможности для инновационного дизайна.

2 Хороший дизайн делает продукт полезным.

Продукт покупают, чтобы им пользоваться. Он должен отвечать определенным требованиям, не только функциональным, но также психологическим и эстетическим. Хороший дизайн подчеркивает полезность продукта, отбрасывая все лишнее.

3 Хороший дизайн эстетичен.

Эстетичность продукта является неотъемлемой частью его полезности, поскольку продукты, которые мы используем каждый день, влияют на нас и наше благосостояние. И только предметы в хорошем исполнении могут радовать глаз.

4 Хороший дизайн делает продукт понятным.

Такой дизайн проясняет структуру продукта. Более того, он может сделать так, чтобы продукт говорил сам за себя. А в лучшем случае, он вообще не требует разъяснений.

5 Хороший дизайн ненавязчив.

Продукты, которые служат какой-то цели, похожи на инструменты. Они не являются ни декоративными предметами, ни произведениями искусства. Поэтому их дизайн должен быть нейтральным и сдержанным, чтобы осталось место для самовыражения пользователя.

6 Хороший дизайн честен.

Он не делает продукт более инновационным, мощным или ценным, чем это есть на самом деле. Он не пытается манипулировать потребителем с помощью обещаний, которые невозможно выполнить.

7 Безупречный дизайн долговечен.

Он не стремится быть модным, поэтому никогда не выглядит устаревшим. В отличие от модного дизайна, безупречный дизайн будет актуален долгие годы, даже в сегодняшнем мире «одноразового» потребления.

8 Хороший дизайн тщательно проработан до мельчайших деталей.

В хорошем дизайне ничто не случайно и не сделано на авось. Забота и точность в процессе дизайна демонстрируют уважение к потребителю.

9 Хороший дизайн экологичен.

Дизайн играет важную роль в защите окружающей среды. Он помогает сберечь ресурсы, а также минимизировать физическое и визуальное загрязнение окружающей среды на протяжении всего жизненного цикла продукта.

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'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

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.

1963 | Reinhold Weiss

KSM 1/11

Design doesn’t get much more minimalistic than this: a coffee grinder so purpose-built it needed just one, centrally placed button to operate. Finely ground beans were just a finger click away.

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 | 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.

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.

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.

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.

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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From inventor’s workshop to global brand

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Visionary.

Less, but better.

Innovative.

Today.

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

10 принципов хорошего дизайна Дитера Рамса

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

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From inventor’s workshop to global brand

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Visionary.

Less, but better.

Innovative.

Today.

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

10 принципов хорошего дизайна Дитера Рамса

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