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Book Willy Guhl - Thinking with Your Hands

As a pioneer of modern design, Willy Guhl created world-famous furniture such as the Eternit beach chair and the first plastic shell chair in Europe. In the tradition of modernism and against the "nationalistic" Heimatstil, after 1945 he developed a holistic design approach oriented towards people and their needs. Functionality and reduction to the essentials characterize his everyday objects; Willy Guhl designed seating, planters and mowers for companies such as Dietiker, Eternit and Aebi.

Willy Guhl's designs, his teaching methods and his image archive testify to the innovations of the booming design industry of the post-war period and the changing professional profile of the industrial designer. As a teacher and later head of the specialist class for interior design and product design at the Zurich School of Applied Arts, he influenced generations of Swiss designers.

This first comprehensive monograph examines Willy Guhl's design legacy in the context of this design and teaching practice as well as current theories of the design discipline. As a thematically organized catalogue of works, it offers a complete list of all designs.

Further information about the publication:

Editor:

Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Renate Menzi with contributions by Ann-Kathrin Hörrlein, Catherine Ince, Renate Menzi, Dieter Mersch, Jasper Morrison, Arthur Rüegg, Katrin Stowasser

Publisher:

Lars Müller Publishers

Design:

Teo Schifferli

Format:

Paperback, 22.5 × 28 cm

Contents:

304 pages and 992 illustrations

Language:

English