Until the 1960s, the architect and product designer Herbert Hirche was very successful as a furniture designer with designs such as the DHS 10 living room shelf for the manufacturer Christian Holzäpfel. The abbreviation DHS stands for “Diplomarchitekt Hirche Stuttgart” and, in conjunction with the numbering, forms a kind of catalog raisonné - this was the form in which furniture was referred to in the tradition of New Living at that time.