A visit to Das Programm to meet Peter Kapos, who is one of the Director’s of Systems Studio in E1 of which Das Programm is a research arm of Dieter Rams design for Braun & Vitsoe. Its a working space and not a showroom. It casually displays part of Peters vast personal collection of vintage Braun & Vitsoe products & furniture collected over 20 years and what a collection theres more Braun items than you can shake a stick at! much of which displayed on vintage Vitsoe shelves and cabinets. The reason for my visit was to purchase an SK55 (snow whites coffin) radio-Phono and pleased to say its now resides in my home, sitting on Vitsoe of course and currently enabling me to be having a nostalgia trip playing my old vinyl from the late 70’s & 80’s…Many thanks to Peter for allowing me to take photos and spending time chatting design….
The sofa and white tables are still manufactured by Vitsoe. The stool in the foreground is a stacking design from 1974.In the background on the wall the beautiful and quite rare wall mounted sound system by Braun 1962
the Braun wall mounted sound system 1962. fixed to Vitsoe tracks and with Vitsoe shelves.The further you get way from the Tape recorder the more to me it looks like one of Keith Haring’s bug eyed grinning face illustrations! but here with two eyes & not three!
close up of the tape recorder with it’s row of white plastic teeth (one missing) and bug eyes..
Lots of goodies on Vitsoe shelves. The yellow (RAL 1024) and brown (RAL 8008) ones surprisingly used to be in production. Would be great if Vitsoe did limited editions in colours again….Braun items feature: World-Band Receiver /Braun Exporter 2 (bottom left shelf) which is attributed to H F G Ulm and the RT20 Tabletop Radio by Rams 1961 (bottom right shelf)
The middle shelf has both versions of the Exporter radio. Rams did a makeover for what is basically still the same radio technically, the 1956 Exporter 2 on the right is the result..But what a difference!!
lots more Braun goodies on Vitsoe shelving….
collection of Braun radios displayed in a sadly long discontinued Vitsoe sliding glass door cabinet, I would definitely buy this glass door cabinet if it were to be available again, its really something missing from the current offer by Vitsoe. Oh there’s also the rather rare P1 (1959) portable record player in the middle with its clip on T4 Pocket Radio.