Willy Guhl: Thinking with Your Hands

The first overview of the influential Swiss modernist designer and teacher

A pioneer of modernist design in Switzerland, Willy Guhl (1915-2004) created world-famous furniture such as the Eternit garden chair and Europe's first plastic shell chair. In the tradition of modernism and against the traditional "Heimatstil," Guhl developed a holistic design approach, designing seating furniture, planters and mowing machines for companies such as Dietiker, Eternit and Aebi.
Guhl's designs, teaching m...