Hans Gugelot
Born
Johan Gugelot

1 April 1920
Makassar, Dutch East Indies
Died10 September 1965 (1965-09-11) (aged 45)
Ulm, Germany
EducationETH Zurich
ParentPieter Cornelis Gugelot
Electric shaver designed for Braun (1962)

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]

Life and work

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.

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]

References

  1. ↑ "Hans Gugelot - Lebenslauf". www.hansgugelot.com. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  2. 1 2 3 "Hans Gugelot - Oxford Reference". www.oxfordreference.com. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  3. 1 2 3 "KulturPortal Frankfurt: Persons". www.kultur-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  4. 1 2 3 WICHMANN (2013-12-14). System-Design Bahnbrecher: Hans Gugelot 1920–65 (in German). Springer-Verlag. p. 10. ISBN 9783034860314.
  5. ↑ "Hans Gugelot – Biografien – eMuseum Museum für Gestaltung Zürich Archiv Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK". www.emuseum.ch (in German). Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  6. ↑ "Master and commandments". Wallpaper. IPC Media (103): 321. October 2007. ISSN 1364-4475. OCLC 948263254. the Phonosuper SK4, dubbed 'Snow White coffin' because of its transparent lid and white metal casing. The SK4 was revolutionary. Perhaps more than any other product, it marked the end of chunky, bourgeois household electrical products decoratively disguised as pieces of furniture
  7. ↑ "A History of Braun Design, Part 3: Audio Products". Core77. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  8. ↑ "Hans Gugelot, Reinhold Häcker. Carousel-S Slide Projector. 1963 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
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