Miele has been a family company since 1899, when Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann built their first machines and wrote a single promise on them: Immer Besser, forever better.
That promise is easy to state and hard to keep. In the Gallery you can test it directly, across ovens, coffee systems, cooktops and dishwashers built to be lived with for years.
On the floor in Roseville
See Miele 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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More than a century on, Miele still belongs to descendants of its two founders, which is unusual in an industry of conglomerates and helps explain the long view the brand takes.
Appliances are put through extended endurance testing before they reach a kitchen, and the German engineering shows in how the doors close and the controls respond. Open a steam oven here, weigh it in your hand, and see whether forever better holds up to the touch.
Miele built-in coffee and combi-steam in Roseville
The Coffee Connect bar at Design Gallery is a Miele column in Obsidian Black glass: a 24-inch built-in coffee machine plumbed to the water line, a 30-inch combi-steam oven and a 30-inch handleless warming drawer, stacked as one VitroLine composition. A plumbed machine never needs its tank filled, which is the detail most people want to see before they give a coffee machine a place in the wall.
Open the combi-steam oven to see the cavity and the water drawer, and stand back to judge how three appliances read as one black panel.
The Coffee Connect display page lists the rest of the bar.
MasterCool columns, ranges and induction by Miele
Two more kitchens carry full Miele suites:
a 30-inch MasterCool refrigerator column and 30-inch freezer column joined side by side, a 24-inch wine column, a 42-inch French-door refrigerator, a 48-inch dual-fuel range with a griddle and a 24-inch dishwasher, the refrigeration behind DreamLine panels.
a 42-inch induction cooktop with two PowerFlex areas, a 36-inch induction range and a 30-inch panel-ready MasterCool refrigerator.
Between them you can compare gas and induction cooking from one maker, and panel-ready against glass-front refrigeration. The Château de France display page has the full list.
Who owns Miele, and where it comes from
Miele is still owned by the two families that founded it. Carl Miele, an engineer, and Reinhard Zinkann, a businessman, started the company in 1899, and it is headquartered in Gütersloh, Germany. Its motto from the start has been Immer besser, usually rendered in English as forever better.
Family ownership is unusual at Miele's size, and the brand ties it to a long view of product life. That is a claim you test with your hands: how a door closes, how a touch control answers, how a panel meets the cabinetry.
Who owns every brand in the gallery is answered in one place: who makes the brands on our floor.
Where to see it
Seeing Miele near Sacramento
Miele appears in four places at Design Gallery, at 900 Sunrise Ave in Roseville: the coffee bar, two kitchens and the pet washroom, where a Miele washer-dryer stacking kit is installed. Seeing a whole suite installed in finished cabinetry, a short drive from Sacramento, is the reason to come. Book a visit to see it at your own pace.
Bring the cabinet drawings: panel-ready Miele refrigeration and a glass-front coffee column ask different things of the millwork, and both are easier to plan standing in front of them.
Designers can walk a client through a coordinated Miele suite with our team; see the Trade Program for designers.
Frequently asked questions
What does Immer Besser mean?
Immer Besser is Miele's founding motto, usually rendered in English as forever better. Miele has used it since Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann founded the company in 1899, and the brand still uses it to describe an approach built on quality and long product life rather than novelty.
Who owns Miele?
The Miele and Zinkann families, descendants of the two men who founded the company in 1899. Miele is headquartered in Gütersloh, Germany, and has stayed family-owned, which is unusual for an appliance maker of its size.
Can I see a Miele built-in coffee machine in person near Sacramento?
Yes. The Coffee Connect bar at Design Gallery in Roseville has a 24-inch Miele built-in coffee machine plumbed to the water line, set beside a 30-inch combi-steam oven and a warming drawer in Obsidian Black glass. Book a visit to look at the installation and the controls up close.
What Miele products can I see on the floor?
A built-in coffee machine, a combi-steam oven and a warming drawer at the coffee bar; MasterCool refrigerator, freezer and wine columns, a French-door refrigerator, a 48-inch dual-fuel range and a dishwasher in Château de France; and a 42-inch induction cooktop, a 36-inch induction range and a panel-ready refrigerator in Tokyo.
Do you work with designers on Miele kitchens?
Yes. Our team helps designers specify a coordinated Miele suite, down to the panels and the rough-in, with a client present while the ovens work. See the Trade Program for designers.
See it in the gallery
See Miele in a finished kitchen display, then book a visit to walk the floor with us and see our working kitchen.
Planning from Sacramento? See where Miele is installed at the gallery, display by display.
900 Sunrise Ave, RosevilleMonday – Saturday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM(916) 500-5417
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