German-born, Tschichold is one of the most outstanding and influential typographers of the 20th century, He cleared away the old typography of pre-1925 and made room for a modern, structured and regulated new typography. His work is characterised by rigorous structure, asymmetrical placement of contrasting elements, and layouts based on horizontal and vertical underlying grids.Read More →
Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) was a Swiss art historian and designer. He was born in Prague. Read More →
Long experience meets vast expertise. Longines has created outstanding timepieces as a traditional watchmaker since its inception. Today, the Longines Master Collection is the idealRead More →
Marianne Straub, Swiss designer and weaver, trained in Switzerland and Britain, made significant advances in fabric design and production. She influenced textile design education and industry.Read More →
Gertrud Preiswerk, a Swiss textile designer from Basel, trained at Bauhaus and co-founded SPH Stoffe in Zurich, collaborating with Wohnbedarf until 1933.Read More →
Herbert Matter, a Swiss Designer and Photographer, had a prolific career in the United States, working with influential artists and institutions. He left a lasting legacy.Read More →
She was a wealthy lady with cultural aspirations, who spent her time travelling between the great cultural centres and fashionable holiday resorts of Europe, and who liked to gather artists and authors around her.
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The Swiss Army Knife, every schoolboy’s dream, was first manufactured in the late nineteenth century. The knife is more than a simple pen knife, with its distinctive bright red body bearing the trademark white cross: it is a compact household tool kit.Read More →
In Switzerland and Rotterdam, he worked as an apprentice and collaborator with Willem van Tijen and H.A. Maaskant. He founded an architecture firm in Solothurn in 1949. He was a guest professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles from 1966 to 1971.Read More →
Albert Frey, a pioneer of “desert modernism” in Palm Springs, synthesized American and modernist architecture. His legacy continues today with iconic structures.Read More →