The Story of Kohler

A story of artistry, tenacity, and bold innovation that spans four generations of Kohler family leadership.

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The Story of Kohler

A story of artistry, tenacity, and bold innovation that spans four generations of Kohler family leadership.

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Black and white photo of John Michael Kohler II

The Founder's Journey​

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.

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The Story of a Wisconsin Woman​

Ruth DeYoung Kohler I (1906-1953), the impact of a historian and a lifelong champion of women’s rights.

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The Bold Look of Kohler girl featuring a variety of colors

The Beginning of Bold​

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.

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A Neighborly Day

Important life lessons with a little help from Kohler Co. and everyone’s favorite neighbor.

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Legendary Course, Legendary Logo

Learn about the iconic, grand, yet mischievous face of the Whistling Straits logo.

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Black and White photo of the Kohler Building at the World's Fair

A Century of Progress

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.

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Black and white photo of Admiral Richard E. Byrd in Antarctic gear

Frozen at the Bottom of the World

Some people called Admiral Byrd crazy for venturing across the South Pole in 1929. Kohler Power called him a partner.

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Enclosed unit called an environment that produces different types of bathing experiences. Ad showing woman inside

A Wild Idea to Bring Nature into the Home

Programming your habitat at home was bold in the 1970s with Kohler’s fully enclosed bathtub called the Environment

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Ad artwork of a Kohler Electric Sink with a man and woman standing next to it

How the Electric Sink Sunk

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.

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Mount Everest. Mountain surrounded by clouds

Peak Performance on Mt. Everest

Kohler received a postcard from Mt. Everest base camp thanking the Power Generators team for its dependable products in the world’s harshest environments.

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Kohler's 1969 Moonshot

In 1969, Apollo 11 landed and humans walked on the moon for the first time in history. Kohler’s precision controls were there.

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Black and white image of men working on an artillery shell in the Factory during World War I

Earning the E-Award

Did you know Kohler converted its entire brass manufacturing operation to wartime manufacturing within six months after Pearl Harbor?

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Black and white photo of Kohler plumbing products at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black in the MET

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.

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