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.

発明家の工房からグローバルブランドへ

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 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年 | ブラウンファクトリー

ブラウンマルチミックスブレンダー

50年代はミルクセーキが欧米の定番商品として定着しましたが、この発展にこのマルチミックスが一部貢献しています。最新鋭のブレンダーで、工業レベルの効率で原料をカットし、取り外し可能なガラス製のミキシング容器が付属していました。これは、今日まで広く利用されている機能です。

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.

1963 | Reinhold Weiss

KSM 1/11

Le design n’est pas plus minimaliste que cela : un moulin à café si bien conçu qu’il ne nécessite qu’un seul bouton central pour fonctionner. Les grains finement moulus s’obtenaient d’une simple pression du doigt.

1963 | Reinhold Weiss

HT 2

Le design épuré et minimaliste de ce grille-pain a grandement inspiré le célèbre artiste Richard Hamilton qu’il s’en est aidé pour créer l’une de ses œuvres (judicieusement intitulée “Toaster”). Oh, et il grille aussi le pain à la 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年| ユルゲン・グロイベル、ディーター・ラムス

MPZ 22

この電動ジューサーは、シトロマティックとも呼ばれ、何十年もの間、世界中で信頼性が高く、信じられないほど簡単に掃除できるキッチンの定番製品でした。ブラウンがオリジナルデザインのアップデートが必要であると決定するまでに20年以上掛かったロングセラー製品です。

1981年 | ルートヴィヒ・リットマン

MR 6

より洗練されたMR 500の前身であるMR 6は、他の製品では扱えないような食品をブレンドすることができるという意味で、頑丈でタフな製品でした。ハンディブレンダーを完成させるための重要な足がかりとなった製品です。

1984年 | ハートヴィヒ・カルケ

KF 40

KF 20と同じデザインを受け継いでいます。このコーヒーメーカーは、ブラウンの定番プラスチックであるポリカーボネートではなく、コスト効率の良いポリプロピレンを使用していたため、ブラウン社内では賛否両論がありました。KF 40の表面を波型にすることで、素材の弱点を補い、ディーター・ラムスをも納得させるデザインとなりました。

2016年 | マルクス・オルテイ、ルートヴィヒ・リットマン

マルチクイック 9

何倍もの大きさになりがちだった当時のブレンダーとは異なり、シンプルな手のひらサイズの「杖」にあらゆる機能を凝縮した万能フードブレンダーです。コンパクトでありながら強力という、新しい小型製品デザインを定義しました。

ブラウンハウスホールドの歴史について

ブラウンハウスホールドの今日の成功は、優れた科学と細部まで考え抜かれた開発に満ちた会社の歴史に基づいています。始まりから今日までのブラウンの主要な作品をいくつか集めました。バーチャルブラウンミュージアムを訪れると、さらに多くのタイムトラベルとスリリングなオンライン体験が待っています。

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Braun.
Designed for what matters.

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

発明家の工房からグローバルブランドへ

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.

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Braun.Designed for what matters.

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

発明家の工房からグローバルブランドへ

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.

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