Hans Gugelot
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1 April 1920
Hans Gugelot | |
|---|---|
| Born | Johan Gugelot 1 April 1920 |
| Died | 10 September 1965 (aged 45) Ulm, Germany |
| Education | ETH Zurich |
| Parent | Pieter Cornelis Gugelot |
Hans Gugelot (1 April 1920 – 10 September 1965) was an Indonesian-born, German engineer and industrial designer known for his modernist consumer products.[1][2]
Johan Gugelot was born on 1 April 1920 in Makassar, Dutch East Indies, to Dutch parents.[3]
He completed his early education in Laren and Hilversum, North Holland.
In 1934, the Gugelot family moved to Davos, Switzerland, for Hans's father's job as a physician.
Between 1940 and 1942 Gugelot studied architecture in Lausanne, and graduated as an architect from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich in 1946.
Until 1948 he worked as an architect for a number of architects.[4] In 1947, he married.[specify]
In 1948, Gugelot was hired by Max Bill, for whom he created his first furniture designs.[4][5]
In 1950 he founded his own office and began work on the design of the "M125" shelving and storage system for Bofinger, a product for which he later became known.
Gugelot is closely identified with Hochschüle für Gestaltung (HfG) in Ulm, Germany.[2] Another influential work of his from this period is the "Ulm Stool", which he designed in collaboration with Max Bill.[3]
In 1954, Gugelot met Erwin Braun, then-head of German consumer product company, Braun. Throughout the remainder of the decade, he created a number of designs for the company such as the Braun SK 4 radiogram (known as "Snow White's Coffin"),[6] which he designed with Dieter Rams and Herbert Lindinger.[7][4][3]
He also designed a slide projector (the Carousel-S, a professional model sold only in Germany) for Kodak in 1962.[2] The design is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in New York.[8] Gugelot died of a heart attack in 1965.[9]
