Interview

15:24 minutes
Swiss German/Subtitles English

Linus B. Fetz was given responsibility for communications by the f irm Eternit AG Niederurnen and it was in this capacity that, in the 1990s, he contacted product designer Willy Guhl (1915–2004) with the aim of launching a new production of the legendary Beach Chair of 1954, this time without the asbestos. Willy Guhl’s specific approach to the task of designing is manifest in classic designs such as the Beach Chair and Elephant Ear  and it is this approach that he has handed down to his students. 

In his home in Niederlenz, Linus B. Fetz talks about his encounters with the Swiss pioneer designer and teacher at the Swiss School of Arts and Crafts in Zurich (now the ZHdK) and explains the designer’s drawings and photographs. 

A contribution from the exhibition "100 Years of Swiss Design".