Dieter Rams’s early awards for carpentry led to him training as an architect as Germany was rebuilt in the early 1950s. Rams joined Braun in 1955, where he quickly became involved in product design – famously adding the clear perspex lid to the SK4 phonogram in 1956. He was appointed head of design at Braun from 1961 to 1995. Rams led the design team that was responsible for many of the seminal domestic electrical products – and some furniture – of the 20th century. These are his principles for design:
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