Hans Bellmann
Two GA chairs, model 7/060, for Horgen-Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Designed in 1955, made before 1970
Two-piece seat shell of moulded plywood, mahogany-veneered, chair legs of chromed tubular steel with rubber cuffs.
The featured pair are early versions of the GA chair. Swiss architect Hans Bellmann was a Bauhaus graduate and teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich. In 1956, his iconic GA chair was awarded for its good design by Swiss Werkbund. The parsimonious use of material combined with high artistic standard make its design today more relevant than ever. See Billing & Eberli, p. 8.
Literature: Billing, Joan und Eberli, Samuel: Hans Bellmann - Protagonist der Schweizer Wohnkultur, Design & Design u. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2015, 83 - 89
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