Horgenglarus
| Horgenglarus | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1880 |
| Seat | Glarus , Switzerland |
| management | Marco Wenger |
| Branch | Furniture |
| Website | www.horgenglarus.ch |
horgenglarus is the oldest chair and table manufacturer in Switzerland , based in Glarus . The name horgenglarus (spelling: ag möbelfabrik horgenglarus) is derived from the name of the original company headquarters in Horgen near Zurich and the location expansion to Glarus in 1902. The company was founded in 1880 as a craft business and has been in the city of Glarus since 1902. The product range is produced exclusively in Switzerland. In the past, well-known architects such as Max Ernst Haefeli , Werner Max Moser , Max Bill , Trix & Robert Haussmann and Hannes Wettstein designed furniture for horgenglarus.
Production and sales
Tables, chairs, bar stools and stools with the brand "handcraftet in Switzerland" are designed, produced and sold in our own factory in Glarus . For the production of the furniture, the company relies on the raw material wood , which has been sourced mainly from the Swiss Jura for over 90 years and processed on site. The history of the company and the collaboration with architects have resulted in products such as the “Classic” chair, which has been produced continuously in the Glarus factory since 1918 and is a design icon worldwide. At the same time, innovative developments and new editions of chairs and tables are being implemented. horgenglarus has its own showroom in the factory and delivers worldwide.
Company history
In 1880 Emil Baumann laid the foundation stone for what would later become the horgenglarus furniture manufacturer in Horgen on Lake Zurich. The production mainly comprised children's furniture, chairs and tables. At the turn of the century, bentwood technology emerged in Germany and Austria; Baumann took up this processing method and developed it further in Switzerland. The wood is made supple in hot steam, bent into shape and dried over several days. The result is the so-called pickling chair. This technique was revolutionary and offered a complementary production method alongside traditional carpentry .
In 1902 the company was converted into a stock corporation and the Glarus plant was added. The company employed up to 120 people. From then on, furniture was made from bent wood in Glarus, while the Horgen company specialized in sawn chairs. In 1918 the “Classic” chair was first produced. The Second World War made it necessary to merge the two locations; the location in Horgen was closed in 1948.
In 1925, the architect, painter and furniture designer Le Corbusier presented “Model 1224” chairs by horgenglarus in his L'Esprit Nouveau pavilion at the international arts and crafts exhibition Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels moderne in Paris . He presented the furniture as representative examples of a contemporary and future-oriented approach to furniture design. From 1926 to 1946 Ernst Anton Kadler-Vögeli was director of the company. He played an essential role in the emerging collaboration with designers such as Max Ernst Haefeli and Werner Max Moser and later Max Bill and Hans Bellmann.
Today the company still produces its furniture in a traditional way and works with architects such as Herzog & de Meuron , David Chipperfield and Max Dudler . In its long history, the Glarus manufactory has mastered many challenges and, after an economic crisis in 1999, was taken over by the Swiss entrepreneur and politician Markus Landolt , rescued, realigned and comprehensively renovated. In 2011 Landolt sold the flourishing company to the von Nordeck family, to which u. a. the Swiss luxury lingerie manufacturer Zimmerli also belongs. Markus Landolt withdrew from Horgenglarus in October 2012. Since then, the company has been led by Marco Wenger.
literature
- Text brochure and exhibition catalog Werkbund Galerie Berlin, 2013.
- Frederick A. Praeger: New furniture. Publishers, New York 1960.
- Deutscher Werkbund Berlin: horgenglarus chairs from Wettstein, Moser, Haefeli, Dudler.
- Furniture and living space. Publishing house for architecture, Erlenbach-Zurich
- Swiss goods catalog. Published by the Swiss Werkbund, 1954.
- Studio Hannes Wettstein: Seeking Archetypes. Program booklet, Lars Müller Publishers
- Klaus-Jürgen Sembach: New furniture, an international cross-section from 1950 to today. Gerd Hatje publishing house, 1982.
- Christoph Bignes: Flavor elite Swiss Werkbund. Chronos Verlag, 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Balance sheet No. 7, April 4, 2014, Markus Landolt
- ↑ Glarus product in Interlaken hands. In: Jungfrau newspaper .