Two GA chairs, model 4017, for Horgen-Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland | Designed in 1955, made before 1970
Two-piece seat shell of moulded plywood (mahogany veneer), chair legs of chromed tubular steel with rubber cuffs
The featured pair are early versions of the GA chair. Swiss architect Hans Bellmann was a Bauhaus graduate and teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich. In 1956, his iconic GA chair was awarded for its good design by Swiss Werkbund. The parsimonious use of material combined with high artistic standard make its design today more relevant than ever. See Billing & Eberli, p. 8.
Literature: Billing, Joan und Eberli, Samuel, Hans Bellmann - Protagonist der Schweizer Wohnkultur, Design & Design, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2015, 83 - 89
Horgen-Glarus Katalog 1965, AG Möbelfabrik Horgen-Glarus, Glarus, 1965, 32
