Visiting the annual Braun collectors fair

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Post by farslan » Sun, May 05, 2024, 4:09 PM UTC

Visiting the annual Braun collectors fair
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Post by simple10 » Mon, May 06, 2024, 12:32 AM UTC

Braun has an incredible design legacy. I had no idea there's an annual collectors fair. Add that to my bucket list.

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Post by RapperWhoMadeIt » Mon, May 06, 2024, 5:01 PM UTC

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Post by maxglute » Mon, May 06, 2024, 5:04 PM UTC

Apart from watches, Braun design language last couple decades have felt pretty uninspired.

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Post by jrmg » Mon, May 06, 2024, 5:45 PM UTC

I’d love to read an account of the ‘fall’ of Braun. Through my adult life, basically the only thing it makes that are still ubiquitous are electric shavers - which are great shavers, but hardly icons of design.

Was there internal drama that led to this contraction in the diversity of what they made? Did it happen fast or slow? I feel like there must be a good story in there.

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Post by farslan » Mon, May 06, 2024, 5:56 PM UTC

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Post by farslan » Mon, May 06, 2024, 5:58 PM UTC

maxglute wrote: post #4

Apart from watches, Braun design language last couple decades have felt pretty uninspired.

I agree. However since 2009 the Head of Design has been Oliver Grabes, and I love where is he heading. He started to think more about legacy Braun design and started incorporating old design elements in their never elements.

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Post by farslan » Mon, May 06, 2024, 6:00 PM UTC

jrmg wrote: post #5

I’d love to read an account of the ‘fall’ of Braun. Through my adult life, basically the only thing it makes that are still ubiquitous are electric shavers - which are great shavers, but hardly icons of design. Was there internal drama that led to this contraction in the diversity of what they made? Did it happen fast or slow? I feel like there must be a good story in there.

If you're interested Dieter Rams itself goes into it a little bit in the "Rams" documentary. But it all happened after Gillette acquired Braun in the 1970's.

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Post by seabass-labrax » Mon, May 06, 2024, 6:00 PM UTC

The Design Museum in Brussels[1] also has a sizeable collection of Dieter Rams and other Braun items. The theme of the permanent exhibition is polymers, so there's everything from little electronic devices to whole modular plastic storage units on display. I'd highly recommend it!

[1]: https://designmuseum.brussels

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Post by bch » Mon, May 06, 2024, 6:12 PM UTC

seabass-labrax wrote: post #9

The Design Museum in Brussels[1] also has a sizeable collection of Dieter Rams and other Braun items. The theme of the permanent exhibition is polymers, so there's everything from little electronic devices to whole modular plastic storage units on display. I'd highly recommend it! [1]: https://designmuseum.brussels

> The Design Museum in Brussels also has a sizeable collection of Dieter Rams and other Braun items.

Museum Angewandte Kunst (Museum for Applied Art)[0] in Frankfurt, too.

[0] https://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/de/besuch/ausstellungen...

Edit: And in English - https://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/en/visit/exhibitions/pe...