Braun designer extraordinaire Dieter Rams and his wife Ingeborg Kracht-Rams (they met in 1957 at Braun where she worked as a photographer) at their modernist home in Kronberg near Frankfurt, Germany | Most of the furnishings in the home were made by Vitsœ in Frankfurt during the 1960s | Photos: Philip Sinden. More to see here.
More to read here, Daily Telegraph 2010.
The house is something of a living museum. Look this way and that, and the eye will fall on one of Rams’s designs. In the living-room there is the 606 Universal Shelving System and the compact 620 seating system that he designed for Vitsoe in 1962. The dining chairs may be Thonet, but the 720 Round Oval dining-table (for Vitsoe, 1972) and the black leather recliner in one corner are further examples of his work. The television (Braun TV3), which features a screen whose horizontal angle can be adjusted, is by Rams, dating from Braun’s last hi-fi collection in 1986. So is the handle to the door that leads to a small kitchen just off this space; its 6ft-long serving hatch is used as a breakfast bar.
Design is fine. History is mine. 