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Max Bill (December 22, 1908 – December 8, 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, and designer.
After an apprenticeship as a silversmith, Bill took up studies at the Bauhaus in Dessau. He later taught at Bauhaus.
In 1944, he became a professor at the school of arts in Zurich.
In 1950, Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill founded the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany (HfG Ulm), a design school in the tradition of the Bauhaus, which was however closed again in 1968.
Among Bill's most famous designs is the "Ulmer Hocker" of 1954, a stool that can also be used as a shelf element [... mehr]
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Safretti has contracted two top designers to build up the assortment with new product lines. The designers are Jan des Bouvrie and Jort Mercuur.
Jan des Bouvrie (1942). After completing his education at the Rietveld Academy, Jan des Bouvrie worked in his partents’ furniture-business of his parents. Now, he owns a leading interior design institute with it’s own design studio. Des Bouvrie’s designs have earned countless prizes and decorations.
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