koziol
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Tangible ideas. The former Koziol ivory factory in Michelstadt now produces fashionable luminaires, trendy partitions and colorful gifts. The classic: The dream sphere. The world famous snow globes are also available with gold dust and silver stars – and on request with your very own motif.
www.koziol.de
Braun Design Desire
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Verboten gut aussehen (look forbiddingly good): The current advertising slogan for the Braun razors from Kronberg applies just as much to the customers as to the appliances themselves. The razors have enjoyed international success ever since the 1960s – with regard to industrial design as well. “Mr. Braun” Dieter Rams gave the products an unmistakable face - elementary functionalism.
www.braun.com
Wella Professionals
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Wella creates trends. In the 1970s the hair care products from Darmstadt enable the afro-look, in the ‘80s the wet-look, and today a highly individual hair fashion worn by several international style icons. “Virtual Life” is the name of the current vision – visually somewhere between reality and the virtual world.
www.wella.de
Leica
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Leica is a legend. Among several professional journalism photographers the cult cameras from Solms are known particularly for the superb visual and mechanical quality of their lenses. Seven Leica galleries worldwide – including New York, Tokyo and Frankfurt – present masterpieces by photographers who use Leica.
Leica-Camera.com
Jack Wolfskin
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“At home outdoors”: You could be forgiven for thinking Jack Wolfskin, a leading supplier of outdoor clothing, was based in Canada rather than Idstein. The company with the wolf’s paw trademark started out as the brand of the Frankfurt company Sine. Today over 200 Jack Wolfskin stores worldwide sell rucksacks, tents, and fashionable all-weather clothing.
www.jack-wolfskin.de
Sinn
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Sinn watches are different. Not knickknack, not plain fashion, not jewelry in the traditional sense. Made in Frankfurt, these chronographs are, though, unadorned engineering, pure innovation. With his financial center watch models Sinn also reveals a sense of FrankfurtRhineMain.
www.sinn.de
Opel
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Not only for FrankfurtRhineMain is Opel a marque with tradition and a future. Opel must gleam again, says state Prime Minister Roland Koch in the wake of the turbulence of the past few months. With the Insignia and the new Astra the Rüsselsheim work force has optimistically made itself the topic of conversation again. Per aspera ad astra. Or: the beginning of a new era.
www.opel.de
Erdal
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108 years old and still sprightly. The frog from Mainz is probably the oldest in the world. But it is still making great claims. “Erdal – polished shoes have it”, the red frog maintains. It has stood for uncompromising quality for over 100 years now. The shoe polish has a fairly constant market share of 80 percent.
www.erdal.de
Rowenta
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And the winner is: a kettle. Ever since the 1920s the Offenbach company Rowenta has stood for shapely household appliances with innovative functions, which are self-explanatory in their use. The “red dot Design Award” was bestowed on the M-Edition only recently. Even today the revolutionary steam irons are a big sellers.
www.rowenta.de
Seeger
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Masterpiece in leather. One thing can be said of the luxury articles by the Offenbach leather goods manufacturer Seeger for certain: they are second to none in terms of softness. Specially treated top-quality lambskin nappa guarantees this. Star conductor Leonard Bernstein only ever put his baton down if his special Seeger case was close by.
www.seeger.de
Brita
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A name goes round the world. 40 years ago, when Heinz Hankammer came up with the idea of filtering tap water in order to rid it of lime and chlorine, he simply named the young company after his daughter. Today the name Brita is known throughout the world. There is a water fi lter from Taunusstein in almost every household.
www.brita.net
