Few companies’ DNA is as distinctive as that of USM. Hardly surprising, given that the modular furniture system has always remained faithful to the original blueprint by designer and architect Fritz Haller and, while it has certainly evolved over the years, has never radically changed. As a result, the chrome-plated ball joint that was devised in 1963 is still the heart of USM’s furniture systems to this very day. The pioneering spirit of the then managing director and engineer Paul Schärer and architect Fritz Haller soon paid off: the tubular steel furniture that was originally only intended for their own offices in Münsingen turned into a global success story. Today USM’s products are considered classics that are used not just to furnish offices and homes all over the world but to equip public buildings like hospitals, libraries and stores as well. Since 2001, USM furniture has even been part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York. That same pionee… continue
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