Braun: Designed to Keep

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Phaidon's Braun: Designed to Keep is a corporate monograph of the Kronberg company whose radios, shavers, and calculators became the reference for post-war industrial design. Klaus Klemp catalogues 250 objects across sixty years, with new photography and archival production drawings. The book is set on uncoated paper in a Braun-appropriate sans, and the cover is the exact grey of an SK 4 record-player case. Every product is shown at true scale where possible. It's the deep read for anyone who bought the Dieter Rams monograph and wanted the wider studio context around it.

Art and design book publisher with a famously clean library.