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Willy Guhl: Thinking with Your Hands (Hardcover)
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Willy Guhl: Thinking with Your Hands (Hardcover)
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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, after 1945 he developed a holistic design
approach oriented to human beings and their needs; functionality
and reduction to the essential characterize his everyday objects.
In collaboration with Swiss companies such as Dietiker, Eternit and
Aebi, Willy Guhl designed seating furniture, planters and mowing
machines. Willy Guhl's designs, his teaching methods and his image
archive 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 and later head of the
class for interior and product design at the Zurich School of Arts
and Crafts from 1941 to 1980, Willy Guhl influenced generations of
Swiss designers, including Robert Haussmann, Kurt Thut and Andreas
Christen. The trained carpenter and interior designer passed on his
design knowledge "hands-on," with illustrative objects, by model
making and storytelling. 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, and illustrates in
sketches, plans and photographs his exploratory working method and
his passion for material and technology, which is equally evident
in the selection of exemplary student works.
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