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USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable

by Fritz Haller & Paul Schärer — from CHF 1’737.00
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The USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, perfectly demonstrates the design principle of the USM Haller modular furniture system by Fritz Haller and Paul Schärer. The USM system is now regarded as a design classic and is just as functional in the home as in the office.

Details

Product type Filing cabinet
Dimensions

Overall
(1) Height: 179 cm
(2) Length: 78 cm
(3) Depth: 38 cm
Ball centre to ball centre
(1) Height: 175 + 4 cm
(2) Length: 75 cm
(3) Depth: 35 cm
Weight ca. 48,5 kg (without doors)
Material Panels: Metal, powder coated
Structure: Steel, chrome plated
Ball: Brass, chrome plated
Variants Optionally available with drop-down or extension doors.
Colours

Colour chart Request a USM Haller Colour Fan
Functions & Properties Filing cabinet can be extended in all directions
Inflammable class 1
Assembly
Care Chrome plated, powder coated, and glass elements should be cleaned with a damp, light cloth and subsequently dried.
Stubborn stains can be cleaned with glass cleaner or water mixed with ethanol in a ratio of 10:1.

Please click on picture for detailed information (ca. 1,6 MB).

Awards & Museums Permanent collection MoMA, New York
Certificates Inflammable class 1 (DIN 4102)
GREENGUARD - Indoor Air Quality
LEED "Green Directive"
Warranty 24 months
Product datasheet Please click on picture for detailed information (ca. 1,6 MB).
Product presentation

Popular versions

USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Pure white RAL 9010, With drop-down door, With drop-down door, With drop-down door, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Pure white RAL 9010, Open, Open, With drop-down door, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Pure white RAL 9010, Open, Open, Open, Open
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Pure white RAL 9010, Open, With drop-down door, With drop-down door, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Pure white RAL 9010, Open, With drop-down door, Open, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Graphite black RAL 9011, With drop-down door, With drop-down door, With drop-down door, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Graphite black RAL 9011, Open, Open, With drop-down door, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Golden yellow RAL 1004, Open, Open, With drop-down door, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Graphite black RAL 9011, Open, With drop-down door, Open, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Pure white RAL 9010, With drop-down door, With drop-down door, Open, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Steel blue RAL 5011, With drop-down door, With drop-down door, With drop-down door, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Gentian blue RAL 5010, Open, Open, With drop-down door, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Steel blue RAL 5011, Open, Open, Open, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Pure white RAL 9010, With drop-down door, Open, With drop-down door, Open
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Graphite black RAL 9011, Open, Open, Open, Open
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Pure white RAL 9010, Open, Open, With drop-down door, Open
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Golden yellow RAL 1004, Open, With drop-down door, With drop-down door, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Pure white RAL 9010, With drop-down door, With drop-down door, Open, Open
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, USM green, Open, Open, With drop-down door, With drop-down door
USM Haller Storage Unit M, Customisable, Anthracite RAL 7016, Open, With drop-down door, With drop-down door, Open

FAQ

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Should the answers to your questions not be found here, our service team can be contacted Mon-Fri, 9 am - 5 pm and Sat, 9 am - 5 pm via 031 981 40 67.

Will my USM Haller filing cabinet be delivered in individual parts?

The USM filing cabinet comes fully assembled, assuming local conditions allow such.

Why can the upper elementof the USM Haller filing cabinet not be individually configured?

The USM filing cabinet has an overall height of 1790 mm, as such it would be ergonomically unfavourable to equip the upper compartment with a door.

Can I remove the rear wall wall of a USM Haller filing cabinet, despite the presence of a door?

Yes. The rear wall has no function in the functionality of the door and door support structure.

Design Story

The Design

The history of the USM filing cabinets, the USM Haller sideboards, and indeed all USM units begins in the early 1960s, when the Swiss company USM sought to restructure itself into a modern industrial enterprise. The then owner of the company, Paul Schärer, commissioned the architect Fritz Haller to plan new facilities. After completion of the new buildings Fritz Haller developed in 1963s interiors for the new USM Office Pavilion in Münsingen. Originally designed for the company's needs, System USM Haller went into series production six years later, following a commission for the offices of the Rothschild bank in Paris. The special feature of USM filing cabinet is now, as then the modular conception: from just three basic elements furniture can be constructed in almost every imaginable shape. In the basic structure chromed metal tubes are connected with chromed metal balls. Panels of metal or glass are used. Finally, the furniture can be customised with various accessories, such as doors, castors, locks and intermediary shelves. The individually configurable USM Filing Cabinet with doors / drawers has five compartments, which can be optionally equipped with drop-down or extension doors.

The basic USM structural skeleton can be easily, and efficiently, transported.

Historical Context

Just as with Fritz Haller's architecture so is his System USM Haller a product of functionalism. As a design principle, the concept initially arose after the First World War at the Bauhaus and developed after 1945 as the epitome of modern construction. The famous phrase "form follows function" is to this day representative of the, then, modern view that the appearance of an object has to be defined by its function. USM Haller is in many ways especially functionalist because the modular shelving system is not only designed according to the user's individual requirements, but can be retrofitted or rebuilt as often as required. In terms of art history USM furniture system, with its strict reduction to basic geometric structures, draws a connection to the minimalism of the 1960s.

System USM Haller offers a world of possibilities.

Production

All USM Haller components are produced and powder coated in the fourteen USM colours in an environmentally friendly paint process at the company's global headquarters in Münsingen, Switzerland. The final assembly for the German market is carried out in Buehl, Baden-Württemberg, or directly from the retailer or end customer. But always by specially trained USM technicians. Through shipping out individual parts for later assembly rather than fully completed units, USM saves valuable resources during the transport process during transport valuable resources. USM Haller furniture can further claim to be an ecologically sustainable product because, on the one hand only high quality, so very durable materials and are used for USM furniture, and on the other its adaptability to changing requirements means it can customized by adding new elements to existing units as required. Or completely re-designed and re-built.

Based as it is on the same construction principle, the USM factory in Baden-Württemberg can also be rebuilt as needs change.

Designer

The architect Fritz Haller was born in 1924 in Southern, Switzerland and designed various functionalist buildings, including schools, workshops and office buildings. In 1961 the then USM Junior-Chef Paul Schärer commissioned Fritz Haller with the construction of new production and administration building. Haller consequently designed the USM office furniture as a complementary interior furnishing. It was, however, to remain Haller's only furniture design to achieve any wider fame. His work as an architect and as a furniture designer share a deep understanding of systematization and the principle of construction via modular building blocks. Haller's USM shelving system has been awarded with various prizes and is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2001. Fritz Haller died in 2012 in his native Switzerland.

USM Haller stands for a minimalist interior.

Manufacturer

Seventy years after its founding as a hardware store and locksmith business USM became the manufacturer of the most innovative office furniture systems of the twentieth century. Following reorganisation of the operation in first the 1920s with the production of window fittings and in the 1940s to include the introduction of metal construction and sheet metal fabrication, the decisive impulse came from a commission in the 1960s granted by company boss Paul Schärer to the architect Fritz Haller granted. And which led to the USM Haller furniture system. Mass-produced since 1969 USM office furniture has since 1988 been protected by copyright and is included in the collection of the MoMA. In addition to the shelving system, the USM family also comprises USM sideboards, mobile cabinets and various USM Haller tables.

Our USM Haller Sideboards, Highboards and Filing Cabinets

Depth:
always 37cm
M
Length: 77cm
L
Length: 152cm
Sideboards
Height: 74cm
Highboards
Height: 109cm
Filing Cabinets
Height: 179cm
Everything is possible with USM. Somethings more popular however than others. Consequently (smow) maintain a standard stock of the most common USM Haller highboard, sideboard and filing cabinet combinations. A standard stock that are, usually, available at short notice. Naturally, we can however deliver individual USM Haller units created by you to meet your own personal requirements and needs.

USM Independent - Contact our USM Service Team via: 031 981 40 67

Individual advice and configuration of your desired USM configuration

  • Everything is possible with the USM modular furniture system.
  • Talk to our experienced team of USM Haller consultants, to help you realise your individual USM Haller unit.
  • System USM Haller is available in countless sizes and colours.
  • Alterations and variations of all models offered in our online shop are always possible.

USM Haller: Components and dimensions

The various elements of the USM Haller modular furniture system are available in numerous sizes and dimensions. The core elements and their possible sizes are depicted in our reference table below:

  1. Select the item that interests you from the right-hand column.
  2. On the left-hand side you can see which dimensions are possible.
  3. For the specific measurements, move the mouse pointer over the table.
Available in 250, 350, 500 and 750 mm depths
Metal panel
Metal panel, perforated
Glass panel
Glass door
Drop-down door, metal
Extension-door, metal
Flip-up door, metal

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