FSB honors 100 years of Bauhaus with new door handles

FSB is marking 100 years of Bauhaus. The school for visual artists, craftsmen and architects was founded in 1919, and especially for this anniversary, FSB has introduced new door handle models in tribute to three legendary protagonists of the Bauhaus era.

Thus FSB presents the new door handle family 1267, a tribute to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Hartmut Weise seized the opportunity by reinterpreting two door handle models by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and designing them into a single product, namely FSB 1267. The new door handle features a smooth transition between the round neck and the flat handle, and the model is available for wooden doors, narrow-profile, glass doors and emergency exits. In addition, the new product family includes window handles and the entire family is available in aluminum brass and bronze.

A second door handle reminiscent of the Bauhaus period is the product family 1102. This redesign of a door handle designed in 1920 by Walter Gropius was reinterpreted by Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini for FSB in 1986. Mendini's door handle 1102 includes variants in aluminum and stainless steel (with or without black inlays) for wooden doors, narrow profiles, glass doors, window handles and is also available as a lift-slide handle.

A third design strongly reminiscent of Bauhaus is the 1021 product family. In the 1990s, FSB's own designer Harmut Weise redesigned a door handle by the influential Bauhaus student Willhelm Wagenfeld. Characterized by its minimalist appearance, the 1021 is a prototypical door handle in the modernist style. The 1021 product family is available in the materials aluminum and stainless steel.

FSB has respectfully interpreted the door handles of the Bauhaus exponents and adapted them to contemporary building requirements.