The Historia Supellexalis: “S” for Switzerland
Switzerland
A Confoederatio; A Range; A Context
USM Haller: Garden, Terrace, Balcony…..
Developed in the mid-1960s as an office furniture system, the inherent flexibility and variability of USM Haller’s modular system has allowed it to naturally evolve alongside office practices and realities; for example, alongside the shift in recent decades from rigid to more flexible office scenographies, alongside the rise in recent decades of home working, or, most recently, with the USM Security Screen which naturally, and quickly, allows any existing USM reception desk to be effortlessly updated and reinvented for our Corona age.
Similarly in the domestic landscape. A landscape USM Haller quickly inhabited and where over the decades the inherent flexibility and variability of its modular system has seen it naturally adapt to the ever evolving realities of domestic life: the domestic life of both the private individual with all its personal fluctuations, high, lows and unpredictability, but also of communal society and, for example, its ever increasing collective networked, digital structure.
But despite its indoor success, system USM Haller hasn’t found its way out of doors……
…..yet…..
smow blog Design Calendar: October 23rd 1924 – Happy Birthday Fritz Haller!
Before Fritz Haller achieved international recognition for the USM modular furniture system, he was…….. a steel construction system! Born in
smow blog compact Milan 2015 special: USM – Rethink the Modular
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fritz Haller and Paul Schärer’s USM Haller modular furniture system USM instigated a series
smow blog compact Milan 2015 Special: USM Privacy Panels
For reasons far too abstract, intangible, and potentially libellous, to go into, we didn’t report on the inaugural presentation of
SYSTEM DESIGN. Über 100 Jahre Chaos im Alltag at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln. Reprise
In our 5 New Design Exhibitions for January 2015 post we noted with dismay, and an unmistakable hint of accusation,
Passagen Cologne 2014: System USM Haller “Facetten” @ (smow) Köln
Aside from death, taxes and heartbreak, the only other certainty in life is that you will, with an unnerving regularity,
Fritz Haller: Designer of Systems. An Interview with Georg Vrachliotis
Imagine you spent your entire career researching and developing modular building systems. Imagine you gave the world radical new approaches
Designed for work: smow and office furniture
In a recent article wired magazine presented their own take on the evolution of office furnishing. From the introduction of