Encyclopedic survey of modernist Swiss design beginning in 1870 but focused on the Bauhaus/Ulm School driven twentieth century, which is divided into chronological chapters of 15 to 25 years. Each chapter features a scholarly overview plus an examination of several masterworks. Includes interior design, furniture, lighting, and accessories by a roster of designers and architects including: Alfred Roth, Marcel Breuer (during his sojourn), Werner Max Moser, Max Bill, Hans Coray, Willy Guhl, Jacob Muller, Hans Gugelot, Wilhelm Kienzle, Rosemarie and Rico Baltesweiler, Hans Bellman, Hans Eichenberger, Ernst Ambuhler, Kurt Thut, Andreas Christen, Fritz Haller, Klaus Vogt, Bruno Rey, Ubald Klug, Koni Ochsner, Trix and Robert Haussmann, Susi and Ueli Berger, Hannes Wettstein, Hanspeter Weidmann, Peter Steinmann, Beat Frank, and Silvio Schmed. Published in 2002 by Birkhauser and edited by Arthur Ruegg. Text by some 20 contributors in English. 4to (9” x 11.5”), hardcover with dust jacket, 456 pages, fully illustrated throughout in color and b/w, with a catalog of 310 objects at the end, along with 150 designer biographies. An indispensable reference work for this subject replete with visual, curatorial and biographical information. Slight lean to spine. Gentle bumping to boards. Light bumping and rubbing to dj. Interior Near fine.
Encyclopedic survey of modernist Swiss design beginning in 1870 but focused on the Bauhaus/Ulm School driven twentieth century, which is divided into chronological chapters of 15 to 25 years. Each chapter features a scholarly overview plus an examination of several masterworks. Includes interior design, furniture, lighting, and accessories by a roster of designers and architects including: Alfred Roth, Marcel Breuer (during his sojourn), Werner Max Moser, Max Bill, Hans Coray, Willy Guhl, Jacob Muller, Hans Gugelot, Wilhelm Kienzle, Rosemarie and Rico Baltesweiler, Hans Bellman, Hans Eichenberger, Ernst Ambuhler, Kurt Thut, Andreas Christen, Fritz Haller, Klaus Vogt, Bruno Rey, Ubald Klug, Koni Ochsner, Trix and Robert Haussmann, Susi and Ueli Berger, Hannes Wettstein, Hanspeter Weidmann, Peter Steinmann, Beat Frank, and Silvio Schmed. Published in 2002 by Birkhauser and edited by Arthur Ruegg. Text by some 20 contributors in English. 4to (9” x 11.5”), hardcover with dust jacket, 456 pages, fully illustrated throughout in color and b/w, with a catalog of 310 objects at the end, along with 150 designer biographies. An indispensable reference work for this subject replete with visual, curatorial and biographical information. Slight lean to spine. Gentle bumping to boards. Light bumping and rubbing to dj. Interior Near fine.
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