A collaboration
with one of today’s most important product designers:
In December 2018, TSATSAS presented the model 931, a bag designed by Dieter
Rams.
Dieter Rams, born in 1932 in Wiesbaden/Germany, is
considered one of the most influential industrial designers of the past
decades. His products for
the companies Braun and Vitsoe inspire creatives around the globe to this day.
The “Ten principles for good design,” which he formulated from the mid-1970s
onwards, pointed even then to the challenges design in particular and our
society as a whole are facing today more than ever.
Having worked in the field of product design for
more than 40 years, Dieter Rams is still highly topical. With missionary zeal, he
continues to claim to this day that the correct understanding of design can
help create a better world.
In 1963 Dieter Rams designed a handbag made of
leather for his wife Ingeborg, whom he met in 1955 when she was working for
Braun as a photographer. It was while working for Braun himself, where he was chief designer from
1961 until 1995, that Rams engaged more strongly with the material leather,
collaborating with leather crafting workshops in Offenbach/Main for the
company’s shaver cases. And it was there that he had the idea of surprising his
wife with a leather bag, yet it remained a one-off.
55 years later, TSATSAS introduced this very bag to
the market. The label’s
design philosophy – to create timeless bags and accessories with a clear design
language that give rise to lasting shapes without any aesthetic expiry date –
was easy to reconcile with Rams’ expectations of a product.
So reduced and simultaneously concise that it
unavoidably calls to mind Rams products, 931 is as up-to-date today as it was
in 1963 and effortlessly bridges five decades of design history.
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TSATSAS AND VITSOE
British furniture maker Vitsoe welcomed the founders and designers of TSATSAS in their Munich showroom. The exhibition of the high-quality leather bags in conjunction with Vitsoe’s furniture collection following the original designs of Dieter Rams was on display in November 2014.
Frankfurt-based bag maker TSATSAS designs and produces elegant yet unassuming products that do not pander to passing fashion. Its consistent focus is to achieve a perfect balance between function, aesthetics and execution – a concept that makes Vitsœ and TSATSAS Besondere Weggefährten.
For 50 years, Vitsoe operates in the conviction that uncompromising quality in aesthetics, functionality and fabrication gives a design continuing relevance.
With Esther and Dimitrios Tsatsas, Vitsoe invited designers who face the challenge of the short-lived fashion market with the same standards of clarity in design and precise craftsmanship in the production: Linear forms in unusual cuts and the high materiality of the manually processed leather lend their designs an irresistibly unpretentious elegance.
From the reduction to the essentials arises an unassuming casualness that makes TSATSAS’ bags as well as Vitsoe’s furniture to discrete companions in everyday life.
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