The universal furniture for all situations from USM
The universal furniture for all situations from USM There are few pieces of furniture that are truly universal. The modular furniture system from USM is one of them, even though it was not initially intended for mass production. The classic from 1965, which has long since been included in the permanent collection of MoMA, was strictly speaking a waste product of architecture - but admittedly of a particularly intelligent architecture. The Swiss company Ulrich Schärer Münsingen, founded in 1885, had made a name for itself in metal construction and sheet metal processing. When it was decided to build a new factory at the beginning of the 1960s, the company commissioned the architect Fritz Haller from Solothurn. In order to be able to expand the production facilities at any time, he avoided a self-contained construction. Instead, his building was a system of steel construction elements that could be expanded at will. When the building was finished and the furnishing of the offices was...