Klaus Vogt Switzerland

As an architect and designer, Klaus Vogt helped to create a new living culture in the spirit of optimism at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s. His furniture was a harbinger of a new way of life, far removed from bourgeois ideas of living and the functional aesthetic norms of modernity.

The young Klaus Vogt used his knowledge from his apprenticeship as a boat builder early on to design his own chairs. After studying in the interior design class at the Zurich School of Applied Arts under Willy Guhl and completing an architectural internship in the Netherlands, he began to develop furniture that went beyond the existing norms of angular patterns. Klaus Vogt's furniture features shapes with rounded and curved lines, as we know them from boat building. They break with the common design conventions of their time.

His passion for playing with colors, materials, new manufacturing techniques and forms of use gave rise to a new culture of living, characterized by a democratic, social and economic approach to the spirit of optimism of the time.