1023

Design

Johannes Potente

In the 1950s, the Swiss architect, sculptor and designer Max Bill got together with Ernst Moeckel to fashion a door handle for the new Ulm Design College building that drew on the handles common on railway carriage doors in Switzerland and has made design history as the “Ulm handle”.

It was a handle that in turn inspired Johannes Potente to produce FSB model 1023, which for over thirty years has served as an alternative to the usual U-shaped models.