Main entry:

Guhl, Willy, 1915-2004, artist.

Title & Author:

Willy Guhl, thinking with your hands / Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Renate Menzi (eds.).

Publication:

Zürich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2023]

Description:

296 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287) and index.
Foreword / Christian Brändle -- Introduction / Renate Menzi -- The inner necessity of form: Willy Guhl as a designer / Arthur Rüegg -- Cross currents: Willy Guhl and the international furniture scene / Catherine Ince -- The sensation of normal / Jasper Morrison -- Design by drawing / Renate Menzi -- Projections of thought: Willy Guhl's image archive / Ann-Kathrin Hörrlein -- Learning from Willy Guhl / Katrin Stowasser -- Design research avant la lettre / Dieter Mersch -- Works and teaching. Type furniture. Flat-pack table/crate cabinet ; Pavatex wardrobe ; Export furniture ; Small furniture ; Storage units ; Furniture for the student workshop (Teaching) -- Seating studies. Garden chair/Scobalit shell chair ; Armchairs ; Wiessee circulatory tub ; Cardboard chairs (Teaching) -- Eternit. New planters (Teaching) ; Free form ; Flower box ; Rondo/Exzenter/Play pit ; Garden chair ; G59 horticultural exhibition (Teaching) -- Furniture for industry. School furniture ; Bench chair ; Model 3100 ; Aweso shelf ; Guhl stool/swivel stool ; Tea table 7140 ; Designing for industry (Teaching) -- Product design. Handles (Teaching) ; Coin banks (Teaching) ; Vehicles (Teaching) ; Aebi Terratrac TT33 ; Disaster relief (Teaching) -- Rooms. Model homes ; Student room/Holiday homes ; Housing (Teaching) ; Motel (Teaching) ; Cultural center (Teaching) ; Street furniture (Teaching) ; Ländli/Hemishofen -- Perspectives on a life: Willy Guhl 1915-2004 / Ann-Kathrin Hörrlein -- List of works -- Student directory.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

"As a pioneer of modern design, Willy Guhl created world-famous furniture such as the Eternit garden chair or Europe's first plastic shell chair. In the tradition of modernism and against the traditional "Heimatstil", he developed a holistic design approach oriented to human beings and their needs. Functionality and reduction to the essential characterize his everyday objects. For companies such as Dietiker, Eternit and Aebi, Willy Guhl designed seating furniture, planters and mowing machines. Willy Guhl's designs and his teaching methods bear witness to the innovations of the booming design industry of the post-war period and the changing professional image of the industrial designer. As a teacher, he influenced generations of Swiss designers. This first comprehensive monograph illuminates Willy Guhl's legacy in the context of this design and teaching practice as well as current theories of the design discipline. As a thematically structured catalog of works, it offers a complete index of all design projects"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783037787151 English edition paperback
3037787155
(German edition)
9783037787144

Subject:

Guhl, Willy, 1915-2004.
Furniture Switzerland History 20th century.
Design Switzerland History 20th century.
Furniture design Switzerland.
Product design Switzerland.
Furniture designers Switzerland.
Meubles Design Suisse.
Conception de produit Suisse.
Dessinateurs de meubles Suisse.
Meubles Suisse Histoire 20e siècle.
Design Suisse Histoire 20e siècle.
Furniture design
Furniture designers
Product design
Switzerland

Form/genre:

catalogues raisonnés.
Catalogues raisonnés

Added entries:

Menzi, Renate, editor.
Guhl, Willy, 1915-2004. Works. Selections.
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, editor, host institution.

Thinking with your hands

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318009
Call No.: 318009
Copy: 1
Status: Available