Hans Roericht
German designer (1932–2025)
Hans Albrecht "Nick" Roericht (15 November 1932 – 8 December 2025) was a German designer. He designed the TC100 stacking tableware for his thesis at the Ulm School of Design in 1959, which became iconic. He was an influential teacher as professor at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin from 1973 to 2002, heading a faculty for industrial design.
Life and career
Roericht was born in Schönkirch (now Gądkowice, Poland) on 15 November 1932. He studied at the Ulm School of Design from 1955, when the institution was opened, to 1959. He later said what he learned from his teachers Tomás Maldonado, Werner Blaser, Konrad Wachsmann, Hans Gugelot, and Georg Leowald. He designed a set of stacking tableware for his 1959 dissertation there. He missed well-designed tableware in the school, and focused on robustness, stackability and dishwasher suitability. A trade magazine presented the design on its cover and devoted a detailed article to it. Produced from 1961, it was later exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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