MEET WERNER BLASER
I TRAVELLED WIDELY IN JAPAN AND THE DETAILS REFLECT THE INFLUENCE OF THAT WORLD. AND SINCE THE COMPETITION WAS ANONYMOUS, THE JURY PRESUMED THAT I WAS A JAPANESE DESIGNER, WHILE I WAS ACTUALLY FROM BASEL!
Born in 1924, Werner Blaser studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and later in Japan. He opened his own studio in Basel in 1959 and worked with Mies van der Rohe for a substantial period of time, publishing various books on Mies van der Rohe's architecture.
MHC.1 SINGLE UNIT WERNER BLASER
MHC.1 SINGLE UNIT WERNER BLASER
His chest of drawers won the Cantù "Prima mostra selettiva - Concorso internazionale del mobile", a competition designed to rework the image of Italian furniture making. The jury included Gio Ponti, Alvar Aalto, Romano Barocchi, Carlo De Carli, and Finn Juhl.
MHC.1 DRAWER UNIT WERNER BLASER
WERNER BLASER for Molteni&C
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