Gaggenau makes very few things and makes them deliberately: combi-steam ovens, cooktops, ventilation, refrigeration and wine climate cabinets, each built with an almost architectural restraint.
These are appliances designed to be seen as much as used. Up close the materials and the machined edges do the talking, and the restraint that can read as austere in a photograph turns out to be the whole point.
On the floor in Roseville
See Gaggenau in a finished kitchen display at Design Gallery Roseville. Book a visit and we will walk you through it in person.
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The name traces back to 1683 and an ironworks in the German town of Gaggenau, and the brand still talks about work examined by hand and eye at every stage of production.
Three centuries of that habit produce objects closer to instruments than appliances, finished for a very particular kind of kitchen. Stand in front of a wall of Gaggenau ovens here and the case makes itself without a word of persuasion.
The Gaggenau 400 Series in the Black Forest kitchen
The Black Forest kitchen at Design Gallery holds four Gaggenau 400 Series pieces: a 36-inch Vario refrigerator column and a 36-inch Vario freezer column, both panel-ready, a 24-inch fully integrated dishwasher that opens with a push, and a 15-inch Vario gas cooktop module with two burners. The 400 Series is the line Gaggenau designs to be built in and composed, and the Vario modules are meant to be set side by side into stone.
Stand at the columns to see how the panels close over them, and open the freezer to see the stainless and anthracite interior. The Black Forest display page lists every piece.
The Gaggenau Expressive series, oven by oven
The same kitchen carries an Expressive series wall, stainless steel behind smoked glass with handleless doors:
a left-hinged and a right-hinged single oven, each with 19 heating methods, opening away from each other.
a 30-inch oven that combines microwave and conventional heat.
one in smoked glass and one behind a custom cabinet panel, to compare the two looks.
a 24-inch fully automatic machine plumbed to the water line.
Seeing the left- and right-hinged ovens together shows why Gaggenau offers both: the doors open toward the cook from either side of the wall.
Who owns Gaggenau, and where the name comes from
Gaggenau has been part of BSH Hausgeräte, the Bosch home appliance group, since 1995, the same group that owns Thermador and Bosch. The name is older than any of them: it goes back to a hammer mill and nail forge founded in 1683 in Gaggenau, a town in the Black Forest region of Germany.
The brand keeps that metalworking story close, and the Black Forest kitchen here is named for it. The proof Gaggenau asks you to look for is in the material: the weight of a door, the finish of a handle, the edge of a cooktop set into stone.
The ownership of every brand in the gallery is laid out in the Journal: who makes the brands on our floor.
Where to see it
Seeing Gaggenau near Sacramento
Ten Gaggenau pieces from two series stand in one finished kitchen at Design Gallery, at 900 Sunrise Ave in Roseville, a short drive from Sacramento. That is enough to compare the 400 Series and the Expressive series side by side, which a single display unit cannot show. Book a visit to see the Black Forest kitchen at your own pace.
Architects and designers can bring a client and drawings to the kitchen with our team; see the Trade Program for designers.
Frequently asked questions
Does Bosch make Gaggenau?
Gaggenau belongs to the same group. It has been a subsidiary of BSH Hausgeräte, the Bosch home appliance company, since 1995, and BSH also owns Thermador and the Bosch appliance brand. Gaggenau keeps its own design and its own lines, the 400 Series, the 200 Series and the Expressive series.
Where does Gaggenau come from?
From Gaggenau, a town in the Black Forest region of Germany, where the company traces its start to a hammer mill and nail forge founded in 1683. Since 1995 it has been part of BSH Hausgeräte, the Bosch home appliance group.
What is the Gaggenau Expressive series?
It is a Gaggenau line of built-in appliances in stainless steel behind smoked glass, with handleless doors. At Design Gallery the Expressive series includes two 30-inch ovens with 19 heating methods, a combi-microwave oven, two warming drawers and a plumbed espresso machine, all in the Black Forest kitchen.
What Gaggenau products are on the floor?
Ten pieces in the Black Forest kitchen in Roseville: 400 Series refrigerator and freezer columns, a 400 Series dishwasher and a Vario gas cooktop module, plus the Expressive series ovens, combi-microwave, warming drawers and espresso machine, all set into finished cabinetry.
Do you help designers specify Gaggenau?
Yes. Our team works with designers and architects on oven configuration, integration and rough-in, and you can present the running appliances to a client in the room. See the Trade Program for designers to start a partnership.
See it in the gallery
See Gaggenau in a finished kitchen display, then book a visit to walk the floor with us and see our working kitchen.
900 Sunrise Ave, RosevilleMonday – Saturday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM(916) 500-5417
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