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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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Henry Massonnet was born in Oyonnax, a small village perched at an altitude of 700 metres in the Ain department, France.
After his baccalaureate, he went to Paris and entered the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He enrolled in the Higher Teacher Training College and was sought after by the Grande Ecole of Engineering but his head was eventually turned by a young girl from Lyon whose love drew him away from his brilliant studies.
In 1948, he established the company STAMP inside an old mill in Nurieux, a small village located half-way between Bourg-en-Bresse and Oyonnax.
1968: The Tam Tam Stool. A roa[... mehr]
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