Taxile Doat / Emil Decoeur, pumpking vases, around 1900, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Decorative Arts Collection and Sigg hot water bottles, 1925, SIGG AG, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Design Collection
Taxile Doat / Emil Decoeur, pumpking vases, around 1900, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Decorative Arts Collection and Sigg hot water bottles, 1925, SIGG AG, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Design Collection
Wisa-Gloria AG, Dreiradvelo, 1970, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Designsammlung
Wisa-Gloria AG, Dreiradvelo, 1970, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Designsammlung
Oskar Zieta, PLOPP, Entwurf: 2007, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Designsammlung
Serpent, vermutlich 19. Jh., Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
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The leading Swiss museum for design and visual communication presents the treasures of its internationally renowned collection. For example, Max Bill’s Ulmer Hocker meets Albrecht Dürer’s Apocalypse of 1498, Adrian Frutiger’s Univers typeface a Balenciaga cocktail dress. Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s marionettes dance around the SBB station clock while Emile Gallé’s art nouveau vase finds a companion in one of El Lissitzky’s lithographs. The museum has built up its collections over the past 150 years and today holds more than half a million objects ranging across the arts and crafts, graphics, posters, textiles, furniture and product design. 2,000 collection highlights enable visitors to discover the world of beautiful, useful, and curious everyday objects in the basement exhibition at Ausstellungsstrasse.
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Taxile Doat / Emil Decoeur, pumpking vases, around 1900, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Decorative Arts Collection and Sigg hot water bottles, 1925, SIGG AG, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Design Collection
Use the new eGuide to explore the design- and graphic highlights at our main site on Ausstellungsstrasse! The fully virtual eGuide offers background information and stories – in images and texts, videos and sound – on more than 200 collectibles present in the exhibitions Collection Highlights, Ideal Living, Poster Stories and the Swiss Design Lounge. Also available are suggestions for thematic tours on various topics for children as well as for adults.
You can use the eGuide free of charge on your own smartphone or borrow one of our devices during your visit at the site Ausstellungsstrasse.
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