Pair of Willy Guhl Yellow Painted Rectangular Fiber Cement Planters

Pair of repousse sconces with two iron arms each. Remnants of gilt decorate surface of the brass repousse. Dating to the mid-late 19th century. Unwired...

Pair of midcentury Murano lamps. Hand blown semi-opaque pinkish-champagne glass table lamps on gilt-brass bases. Newly wired for use within the USA. Sold as a pair without shades. So...

Pair of Frederick Cooper Helix lamps designed by James Mont. Hand-carved fruitwood with a double barley twist. Art Deco/ Hollywood Regency feel. Re-wired for the US with Edison socke...

Pair of Frederick Cooper Helix lamps designed by James Mont. Hand-carved fruitwood with a double barley twist. Art Deco/ Hollywood Regency feel. Re-wired for the US with Edison socke...

Pair of Brutalist iron candlesticks hand forged topped with hand-hammered brass bobeche cups. This pair of handsome iron and brass candlesticks are forged and hammered with their original painted finish - black over gold. There is some finish chipping off in places around the decorative orbs...

The chart also includes its original wooden dowels from which it can be hung. Pair of vintage Belgian school charts printed on cloth likely dating from the 1960s. Very graphic and in...

This pair of planters, model "oreille d'éléphant" was made of fiber cement by Willy Guhl (1915-2004) in the 1950's. « Willy Guhl was an inventor, an experimenter, a resercher and a visionary. Despite that, he did not get lost in utopia. He reveals himself to be pragmatic almost a genius. » Robert Haussman Willy Guhl was part of these historical designers historiques who have contributed to the international reputation of the Swiss design. He was one of the big representative of Neo-Functionalism. From a carpenter father, he follows a furniture maker formation in the Kunstgewerbeschule of Zurich – School of applied arts of Zurich here he teaches from 1941 -, and becomes the director of the interior architecture department 10 years after. He leads in the late 1940's pionneer reaserches in the plastic furniture field. He develops then a knowledge about moulding technical that we allow him to reveal himself by transposing them on a new material : the Eternit, also called fibercement, which he is one of the first to use in Europe. The Eternit is a kind of cement reinforce by asbestos and with a fiber texture which allows to create audacious pieces with new shapes. It takes the aspect of larges slabs to which it is possible to give a shape as long as they are not dried. Produced in the origin for the industry, it's a cheap material with an important resistance, so perfectly adapted for the fabrication of external furniture.

Pair of concrete planters by Willy Guhl for the Swiss company, Eternit. Guhl, a neo-functionalist designer and innovative furniture designer, came up with the idea of using concrete ...

Second pair of concrete planters by Willy Guhl for the Swiss company, Eternit. Guhl, a neo-functionalist designer and innovative furniture designer, came up with the idea of using co...

Fantastic set of 22 rectangular planters by Swiss architect Willy Guhl for Eternit. Painted years ago in greyish/blue and worn down by years of Eur...

Fantastic rectangular planters by Willy Guhl. Great for succulents and indoor planting. 4 available. Priced individually.  

Rectangular planter made of stone grey fiber cement. Marked Fulgurit. Matches perfectly to the famous Willy Guhl Spindel planter. Decade of...