Astronomical Chart – SIA firm’s New Year’s brochure
Grafiker – Poster
Jubilee Exhibition of the General Cooperative Society – Mural / Basel
Hotel Du Pont Luzen – Poster
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Gottfried Honegger was born in Switzerland in 1917 and educated at the Zurich Arts and Crafts School. In 1940 he married illustrator Warja Honegger-Lavater. Honegger’s earliest work was graphic design and in the fifties he served as art director for Geigy. In the 1960s he began to concentrate on abstract painting and then sculpture. The images shared here are all from the early 1950s and utilize the geometric forms that took on greater prominence in Honegger’s later artwork.
>> Gottfried Honegger flickr set
[ All images sourced from Gebrauchsgraphik No. 1, 1956 ]
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Further information:
>> French interview – YouTube
>> German interview featuring his crafted wall reliefs in Stettbach – YouTube
>> Examples of his paintings and sculptures – Artnet
>> Gottfried Honegger – Wikipedia
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Sandi Vincent grew up in the bay area of California surrounded by mid-century modern architecture and other influences responsible for her affinity for the period and its pop style, including her early exposure to The Monkees, The Avengers and Gerald McBoing-Boing. Sandi now resides in Portland and is a board member of a local nonprofit preservation group, the Mid-Century Modern League. In her day job at a community foundation, she sports the web/social media/print materials coordinator title.
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