Three-leg coffee table with black ovoid linoleum top
Maple, linoleum
AG Möbelfabrik Horgen-Glarus für die Wohnbedarf AG Zürich/Basel
17.25 ht. x 43.3 w. x 43.3 d. inches (44 x 110 x 110 cm.)

Literature: Schweizer Möbel und Interieurs im 20. Jahrhundert

Max BILL (1908-94)
Swiss artist, architect, designer, typographer, and theorist Max Bill was one of the most important exponents of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in European applied arts and design history. Educated by such prominent teachers as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandisky, and Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus, at the start of his career in the 1930s. In the 1950s he teamed up with Inge Scholl and Otl Aicher to found the legendary Ulm College of Design in Ulm, Germany, of which he became the first director. In his work, Max Bill carried on the legacy of the Bauhaus, both as an artist and a teacher, and made a decisive and lasting contribution to twentieth-century cultural life.