This is the first work to present developments within home and furniture design in Switzerland from the end of the nineteenth century to the present in their full complexity. Introductory essays are followed by seven main chapters, each covering a 15-year period and supplemented by dossiers on exemplars from each epoch. The book is rounded off by a presentation of 21 model apartments, a catalogue of objects containing approximately 300 illustrated entries, and 150 biographies: a total of 456 pages with more than 1000 colour and black-and-white illustrations. The result is a well-researched reference book that will satisfy the highest aesthetic demands and appeal to connoisseurs of furniture, interior designers, collectors of high-qualities objects, and lovers of stylistic interiors.

This is the first work to present developments within home and furniture design in Switzerland from the end of the nineteenth century to the present in their full complexity. Introductory essays are followed by seven main chapters, each covering a 15-year period and supplemented by dossiers on exemplars from each epoch. The book is rounded off by a presentation of 21 model apartments, a catalogue of objects containing approximately 300 illustrated entries, and 150 biographies: a total of 456 pages with more than 1000 colour and black-and-white illustrations. The result is a well-researched reference book that will satisfy the highest aesthetic demands and appeal to connoisseurs of furniture, interior designers, collectors of high-qualities objects, and lovers of stylistic interiors.

Preface

Introductory Remarks

Chalets and Anti-chalets-

  On Nostalgia,Desige and Identity

Domestic Culture

1870-1900 Between Industry and Craft-the Interior

1900-1925 Raumkunst and Reform

1925-1940 From Utopia to Concrete Cases

1940-1955 From War-time Reduit to Modern Living

1955-1970 Escape from “Liberated Living”

1970-1985 The End of Progress and the Rediscovery of History

1985-2000 "New Simplicity"and Design in the Age of Microelectronics

1970-2000 Model Apartments

1924-2000 Catalogue of Objects

Appendix