This piece is produced to order by the maker. Production usually takes about 6–8 weeks, after which we despatch it from London.
Because it is built for you, cancellation is limited once production has started on a configuration you specified. Please check the timing before you order — and ask us if the date matters.
Inos is USM's answer to the drawer — the part of an office nobody designs.
Where Haller solves the wall and the surface, Inos solves what goes inside them: boxes, trays and dividers on a single grid, so a set of five drawers and a set of ten are the same product at different depths.
It is built to the same standard as the rest of the system, in the same colours, and it slots into a Haller frame without an adapter.
Inos boxes sitting inside a Haller frame — no adapter, the same grid, the same colours.
The USM Inos system was designed by Alexander Schärer with Dr Thomas Dienes and the Swiss studio Atelier Oï — a different team from the one behind the Haller system itself.
Inos solves the problem Haller leaves open. An open steel frame is excellent at holding things and poor at hiding them, so Inos supplies boxes, trays and drawer sets sized exactly to the Haller grid.
The sets slide into an existing shelf without tools or fittings, which means a shelf built decades ago can be converted to closed storage and back again.
A Swiss family firm since 1885, USM builds the modular Haller system: steel, glass and chrome, endlessly reconfigurable.
The company began in 1885 as a metalworking shop in Münsingen, near Bern. In 1961 Paul Schärer Jr. asked the architect Fritz Haller to design a new factory; a furniture system followed, and its ball connector was patented in 1965.
Series production started in 1969 with an order of 600 workstations for a Paris bank. The system is still made in Münsingen by the same family, and has been in the permanent collection of New York's MoMA since 2001.
