In 1959 Dieter Rams asked Erwin Braun if he could design furniture for furniture-maker Niels Vitsœ and designer Otto Zapf. As Rams recalls, Braun’s spontaneous answer was “Yes. It will help the market for our radios.” A year later, in 1960, the wall-mounted 606 Universal Shelving System was launched by Vitsœ + Zapf, followed in 1962 by the 620 Chair Programme and numerous other furniture developed during the 1960s. In 1970 the company became ‘Vitsœ’ following Zapf’s departure. Upon Niels Vitsoe’s death in 1995 the company moved under the direction of Mark Adams to the United Kingdom from where it has worked closely with Rams to this day, developing and improving his furniture during a working relationship of more than 60 years. In 2017 Vitsœ opened its acclaimed naturally-lit timber production building from where it exports Rams’s furniture to more than 90 countries.