Relaunch of the FSB 1138 by Dieter Rams

Franz Schneider Brakel GmbH + Co KG: Forty years after the Brakel door handle workshop, FSB is bringing back an unmistakable design by Dieter Rams. […] Revised and future-oriented, the entire lever handle is now manufactured locally in Brakel from aluminum. The gray tone of the rgs reappears in the new Aluminum Pure finish. These minimal interventions were carried out in close coordination with Dieter Rams — and the standards he set for his design back in 1986 continue to meet today’s requirements with ease. I’m writing this from the comfort of my 620 sofa, my feet on my 621 side table, a few metres from my 606 bookshelves. In other words: my home looks like a Dieter Rams exhibition. And yet, i don’t think i’ll ever own an FSB 1138 door handle, designed by Dieter Rams with his student Angelika Knoop. Back in 1986, deep into the postmodern era, its design was plainly reactionary. Forty years later, it’s fashionably boring, in an “Apple globalized a bastardized version of Rams’s design…