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Passagen Cologne 2014 System USM Haller Facetten (smow) Köln
Designer | 12.01.2014

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, need new furniture. Not because the old furniture is damaged or no longer en vogue, but simply because your needs and requirements have changed. A furniture system that can adapt to these changing needs is thus obviously advantageous. Developed in the early 1960s by Fritz Haller and Paul Schärer, System USM Haller is such a system. Composed of a steel tube frame

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Design Investments | 05.03.2009

USM Haller: Steady as she goes

Reliability and Solidity. For the journalists at German management magazine brand eins these are the two main virtues a company needs in times of global recession; and in this context their March edition includes a report over USM Haller. The Swiss-based company is globally known for its “System USM Haller” modular furniture, an endlessly extendable furniture system based around the USM Haller chrome-plated brass ball. A ball that is considered so iconic it is even included in the MoMA New

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