Therma: Swiss Pioneer of Electric Appliances 1904-1978

The first comprehensive account of one of Switzerland's most innovative electrical appliance companies and its role in industrial design

For more than 70 years, the Swiss company Therma produced electronic appliances ranging from irons and stoves to refrigerators and kitchens. The company's history coincides with the decades of wide-ranging modernization of the Global North over the course of electrification. Therma did not simply submit to this process, but rather actively sought to affirm ...