Under
the heading 'Designer programme', we have bracketed product
ranges bearing the hallmark of a given designer. A product range
generally consists of one or two lever handles, the attendant
window handle plus doorknobs and door stops. Our European 'names'
include:
the
German Dieter Rams, whose striking handles so fully bear out
his dictum that 'less is more'; the Englishman Jasper Morrison
with his predilection for the unassuming, tangible and hefty;
the Frenchman Philippe Starck, who proves that, even when designing
the most commonplace of products, it is possible to infuse a
strong personal touch without sacrificing
functionality; the Dutchman Ton Haas, who feels that, above
all, a Dutch handle needs to have bulk; the German husband-andwife
designer duo rahe + rahe, who wished to gift the Bauhaus town
of Dessau a handle of their own;
our
colleague Hartmut Weise with his light and breezy stainless
steel collection; the English architect Nicholas Grimshaw, who
imparts styling common in the cutlery industry to his door handles;
the Dane Erik Magnussen, who created a handle collection out
of folded stainless steel strip that has the lightness of a
Scandinavian gull’s wing-beat; the German architect Hans
Kollhoff with his clean-lined handles that exude the spirit
of the legendary 1930s. And our designers' hall of fame does
not overlook the doyen of unsung industrial design, our very
own Johannes Potente, either. You will find his classics both
here in this work aid and in the permanent collection at the
MoMA in New York.
On
the subject of 'unsung inhouse designs', the most recent major
creation of this sort by FSB was the product not of one but
of 650 authors. Together, we have developed a range of fittings
over the past few years that accords with the rules of the Golden
Section.
Click
on a designer or design range below to discover more...
