Driven by the desire to give FSB handles an even more international feel, we recently did another spot of scouting around. In the process, we bumped into Helmut Jahn, whose architecture is a cleanlined fusion of aesthetics and technology. Via Munich, Berlin and Chicago, we finally located the offices of Jahn/Lykouria Design in London. Here, Helmut Jahn runs interdisciplinary design projects together with Yorgo Lykouria.

Jahn and Lykouria are inspired by the reality of a quickly changing world. They approach each project without preconceptions – with the sense of seeing something for the first time. In this way they manage over and over again to discover new forms – and perhaps even something akin to a new poetry for the common artefacts in our lives.

In their thinking, the classic bent tube door handle was designed to take advantage of manufacturing capabilities in accordance with modernist design principles.

For Jahn/Lykouria this is not an appropriate principle for our times, since we have now become accustomed to the idea that machines are here to serve us.

With this outlook it was not long before a new formal language evolved, executed in the new FSB material AluGrey. The upshot is a smart and very original product family that is now set to prove its worth in practice.

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