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When the young architect Walter Gropius was given the opportunity in the convulsive 1920s to build a shoe-last factory at Aalfeld, he commissioned Loevy of Berlin to produce the door handles.

This angular machine handle with round grip (FSB 1102) came, along with Wittgenstein’s handle (FSB 1147) and the model by the Frenchman Mallet-Stevens (FSB 1076), to epitomise early modernism.

The Gropius handle followed in the traces of its creator. It was fitted at the Bauhaus premises at Weimar and later at Dessau. It has wrongly been referred to since as the Bauhaus handle or the handle from Dessau.

A genuine door handle for and from Dessau was produced in the design workshop of the Rahe husband-and-wife business.

rahe + rahe designed a handle collection for the new Dessau college campus sited right next to the Bauhaus building and containing seminar rooms, student ateliers, professors’ and staff offices, lecture halls, an admin wing, dining hall and cafe, and chose FSB to be their development associates.

Their design follows seamlessly on from the great masterpieces of modernism.
A circular handle element that gently arcs back towards the door has had its front surface flattened off in such a way that, front on, the door and handle run parallel, though the back of the handle does retreat a little from the leaf of the door.

This elemental, innovative design feature defines the entire collection, an unobtrusive, functional range of handles that offer themselves up for use by the hand.

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