Switzerland A Confoederatio; A Range; A Context For a great many centuries the lands of the contemporary Switzerland were unknown, locked as they were behind and between the towering, daunting, peaks of the Toblerone cordillera; but then a fearless explorer...
...[gallery link="file" ids="64948,64942,64940"] USM Haller Bacon Settle One of the problems with the traditional bacon settle is that while your situation, your needs, will invariably change, your wooden bacon settle can't really... A modular system, such as that offered by the USM Haller Bacon Settle, can...
...Staged under the title "Ambassadors of Creative Innovation" the Swiss Embassy 3daysofdesign 2019 showcase presented works from established Swiss brands such as Vitra, USM Haller, Création Baumann, Caran d'Ache or Laufen, who presented their new SAVE urine directing toilet concept realised in conjunction with Vienna based studio EOOS and Eawag, the aquatic research institute at the ETH Zürich; younger brands such as Viu eyewear or Zürich based Qwstion with their bags crafted from Bananatex, a textile made from, well, banana plants, not yet Zürcher Bananas, but if we're not all careful it may only be a matter of time, and no-one wants that; and students from the Architecture and Wood & Civil Engineering departments at the Berner Fachhochschule, who, in inter-disciplinary teams of two, considered under the title "Furniture for a Pop-up Embassy", representative, temporary, variable, momentary furniture...
...a Aurel Aebi, Armand Louis and Patrick Reymond work across a wide range of creative genres including scenography, installations, exhibition design and interior design in addition to realising product and lighting design projects for clients as varied as, and amongst many others Zanotta, Artemide, B & B Italia and USM Haller for whom they developed the USM Privacy Panels...
The final stage of our 2011 autumn tour took us to Neue Räume Zurich, Switzerland's largest designer furniture trade fair. And quite possibly Switzerland's most bemuddled designer furniture trade fair. We do appreciate that the organisers are trying to make...
