Photography: Dieter Rams House

Photographer Philip Sinden has completed a series of environmental portraits and images of the home of legendary industrial designer, Dieter Rams.

“Dieter Rams may have just celebrated his 79th birthday but he is still as passionate as ever about design and architecture as he was when starting out at German manufacturer Braun back in 1955 at the age of 23. Sitting in his house, designed by himself, on the outskirts of Frankfurt he reflects on his career and with no children of his own he hopes to help other, young designers take his principles of design and create products that enhance our lives and add to the ever-changing story of good, simple, honest design. Having designed his own home, from the bespoke white tiles with dark grey grouting, made for the Vitsœ showroom in Frankfurt at the same time to match perfectly to the dimensions of his 50-year-old shelving system to fixtures for his tools in the downstairs workshop‚ a room that saw many secret product development when it was even too secretive to be worked on at the Braun factory, Rams is a perfectionist to a degree that most of us would not even comprehend. Only a few items have made it in to his home that have not been under the microscopic view of his eye before heading to mass-production.”
- Daniel Nelson

Dieter Rams House, Photography by, Philip Sinden, via: Yatzer

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

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jared thompson Says:
July 14th, 2011 at 8:19 AM
It's just as you imagined his house would be, nothing too modern in terms of todays technology. But why would he want it when he has designed so many items of the past which were and still are magnificent
mydeco Says:
July 18th, 2011 at 1:25 PM
Bright, clean and fresh rooms and the added art on the wall looks great too!
delser alberto Says:
July 19th, 2011 at 1:41 AM
very few designers are very good architects and…….very few architects are very good designers!
dear dieter keep on designing products and let mies design your house!
a. delser

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