{"id":2210,"date":"2011-11-04T12:32:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2012-01-04T17:10:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T01:10:51","slug":"classic-braun-hairdryers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/classic-braun-hairdryers\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Braun Hairdryers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a huge fan of classic Braun products and in particular the work of Dieter Rams<\/a> who was their chief of design from 1961 to 1995.<\/strong> I find his “less but better” design approach very inspiring and would recommend everyone read his Ten principles of “good” design” (Vistoe has a good summary of them here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Feeling down on the ugliness of most current hairdryer design and thought I would do a little digging to some of the classic braun dryers and thought I’d share them with our readers. While they might not all be the right choice for a salon environment they sure make you think about how much more aesthetic current dryers could be .<\/p>\n

I seem to be missing a couple of their dryers based upon the numbering system they use, but here’s what I found:<\/p>\n

Braun HLD2<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/strong>Designed by\u00a0Reinhold Weiss in 1964<\/h5>\n

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Braun HLD4<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/strong>Designed by\u00a0Dieter Rams in 1970<\/h5>\n

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Braun Rapido (1970s HLD2)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Designed by\u00a0unknown Weiss in unknown year<\/h5>\n

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Sold in the US as the Gillette Promax<\/p>\n

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Braun HLD5<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Designed by\u00a0Reinhold Weiss in 1972<\/h5>\n

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Braun Super Brushing<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Designed by unknown in 1982<\/h5>\n

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During my research I came across a phenomenal resource of classic electronics put together by Gugue<\/a>. \u00a0It really helped me out and I’d recommend browsing their flickr page if you’re into vintage electronics. \u00a0They had a couple of classic posters for braun that I just have to include:<\/p>\n

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I’m a huge fan of classic Braun products and in particular the work of Dieter Rams who was their chief of design from 1961 to 1995. I find his “less but better” design approach very inspiring and would recommend everyone read his Ten principles of “good” design” (Vistoe has a good summary of them here). … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,23,19],"tags":[331,329,105,420,330,328],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colour","category-design","category-tools","tag-advertising","tag-braun","tag-classic","tag-design","tag-german","tag-vintage","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}