Ruth DeYoung Kohler I (1906-1953), the impact of a historian and a lifelong champion of women’s rights.
A story of artistry, tenacity, and bold innovation that spans four generations of Kohler family leadership.
A story of artistry, tenacity, and bold innovation that spans four generations of Kohler family leadership.
John Michael Kohler, the founder of Kohler Co., immigrated to the United States in 1853 from Austria. He traveled with his family by horse-drawn carriage, by foot, and across the ocean in the hull of a ship.
The tagline “The Bold Look of Kohler” was created in 1967 for a one-year ad campaign. Today, it’s over 50 years old and still represents Kohler plumbing around the world
Mr. Kohler bucked the industry trend in the 1970s and doubled down on a material whose strength, style, and soul had been part of the Kohler DNA since the very beginning.
Learn about the iconic, grand, yet mischievous face of the Whistling Straits logo.
Kohler built an entire building for its exhibit in the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago and supplied plumbing and power for other exhibitors like Ford, Goodyear, and more.
Some people called Admiral Byrd crazy for venturing across the South Pole in 1929. Kohler Power called him a partner.
Programming your habitat at home was bold in the 1970s with Kohler’s fully enclosed bathtub called the Environment
Touted as a blessing three times a day, Kohler invented an electric dishwasher in 1926. Ahead of its time and discontinued, people thought it was an unnecessary luxury.
Kohler received a postcard from Mt. Everest base camp thanking the Power Generators team for its dependable products in the world’s harshest environments.
In 1969, Apollo 11 landed and humans walked on the moon for the first time in history. Kohler’s precision controls were there.
Did you know Kohler converted its entire brass manufacturing operation to wartime manufacturing within six months after Pearl Harbor?
In the 1920s, Kohler introduced matching colors in cast-iron enamel and pottery glaze, a first for the industry that resulted in a Kohler bathroom in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.