ErgoSystem wins "red dot award" and “architecture + health innovation prize”
The formal and functional qualities of the ErgoSystem are veritably superlative: Three of its products recently won the “red dot award: product design 2008” - one of the most prestigious international design prizes and the “architecture + health innovation prize” in 2008, the fourth occasion on which it has been awarded by the architecture periodicals AIT and XIA.

Door and window hardware in bronze for inside and out
Alongside design and ergonomics, a key role is played by the material in the manufacture of fittings. In adopting bronze, FSB has revived a material that is historic in two senses. As well as having been used to define an entire age in human history, this copper-tin alloy also boasts a remarkable ability: finishes in bronze patinate, i.e. they darken with use and through the effects of the environment.

Less is more
The architectural tendency towards paring down visible structures and formally integrating functional engineering elements is also evidenced on entrances and exits, notably in the form of non-rebated doors or concealed hinges. FSB has now come up with applicable hardware solutions in the form of flush furniture - equipped with the FSB AGL® compensating bearing for heavy-duty applications or supplied in a fire safety variant - and flush roses for standard doors.

Nice and secure: Flush armoured roses from FSB
FSB supplies a coordinated range of hardware solutions echoing the architectural trend towards flush integration of technical/functional items. Seamlessly dovetailing with this programme are its new flush armoured roses for main entrance doors: models FSB 7396 1010 with securing disc and FSB 7396 2010 with perforation for cylinder plug.

New accents for sliding doors
FSB delivers a formally and functionally innovative hardware solution for sliding doors in the form of closed and open flush pulls. Made in stainless steel and aluminium, its new recessed handles echo the architectural trend towards the flush-mounting of functional appliances.

The new FSB lockset plate for glass doors, model 4224
Glass doors are a contemporary means of expression in modern architecture. They create more light, link up spaces and are conducive to a great sense of roominess. Together with the Christoph Ingenhoven firm of architects, FSB has now developed a slender rectangular item of furniture for glass doors whose unfussy elegance sets perceptible accents in a space.

FSB adopts 5 DuoHandles
This isn’t the first time FSB has demonstrated that a workshop can give rise to marketable products. The eastern Westphalian makers of door and window hardware is now incorporating into its product range 5 outstanding designs submitted to the DuoHandles/HandleDuos workshop that have already been extraordinarily well-received by the public at exhibitions and trade fairs.

Purism of the loveliest kind
Nice inside, shame about the outside? The “Design + Security” hardware range produced since the 1990s by eastern Westphalian handle makers FSB ensures that - notwithstanding the Security Class selected - good design does not need to stop at the front door. Now the Brakel firm is supplementing its range with two unusual items of S4 security hardware that add an electronic component to the set of modules.

FSB points the way
For design purposes, entrances and exits entail more than just the operation of doors, consideration also having to be given to how users find their way around the building beforehand. “Where’s the loo?”, “How do I find my way out?”, “What’s behind this door?”. These are all questions a well-conceived directional signage system is well-disposed to answer. Thus it is only logical that FSB should not focus exclusively on hardware; indeed, with the appearance of its new 2008|09 Manual the issue of finding one’s way round a space (and to the door) has become central.

Frame door hardware from FSB and frame door locks from SSF
The venerable lock making firm Sächsische Schlossfabrik (SSF) has been a joint subsidiary of door handle makers FSB and door and window engineering specialists Winkhaus since 2006, allowing technically harmonised hardware and locks to be effectively provided from a single source. As of now, frame door hardware from Brakel and SSF frame door locks with a through-fixing capability are likewise fully interoperable.

Electronic access control EZK
Moulding the future entails pooling knowledge and turning it into user-friendly products in a spirit of smart management. It was this conviction that brought FSB and Winkhaus to the table and gave rise to the EZK electronic access control system, a jointly developed product innovation.

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