Koziol is a famous German company which specializes in designer plastic products for the household.  I recently visited their  headquarters in Odenwald, Germany, and am doing a series of posts about what I saw.  This is the third… if you missed the previous ones click here: Part1, Part2 , Part3 and Part4.

After I’d seen Koizol’s shipping area, the nice people from their PR department arranged for me to visit the dungeons where products which are no longer for sale are archived — even some designs from the company’s earliest days. I was shocked about how many products I recognized, without having known they were made by Koziol. Turns out my grandma had half her house decorated with their things.

I could easily have spent a whole day in the archives — it was probably my favorite section of Koziol.

Here are some pictures. Rows and rows of shelves filled with cool things. Random, good stuff.

In the next post, I’ll be blogging about some current Koziol products and introduce you to the man currently behind the magic. Please subscribe to the Random Good Stuff RSS Feed, so you don’t miss it!

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Most of you probably know that I’m a photographer. But these days I do more blogging than actually taking pictures, so I decided to assign myself a photo documentary about Koziol.

Koziol? Even if you’ve never heard of this company, based in Germany’s lovely Odenwald, you’ve definitely seen their products. For example, the vegetable cleaning brush is a design hit across the globe:

Cute, functional designs of everyday products is what Koziol’s known for. But that’s not the full story… Koziol started out by designing and creating elephant tusk pieces, as you’ll see in some of the images below.

I grew up close to their manufacturing grounds.  As a child, I would fantasize about what the inside of the factory might look like, every time we drove by.

So a couple of months ago I decided to ask Koziol if they would allow me inside their headquarters, for a photo shoot. To my surprise, they agreed!  And the invitation email came directly from their president, Stephan Koziol.

Over the next couple days, I’ll be blogging about my time there. Subscribe to the RSS Feed if you want to make sure that you won’t miss a post.

Here are some of those early Koziol tusk designs:

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